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Word3 repeat
WordType (verb)
Phonetic /rɪˈpiːt/ /rɪˈpiːt/
Example
  • to repeat a question/a claim/an assertion/a warning
  • to repeat a phrase/mantra
  • she repeated the word several times.
  • i'm sorry—could you repeat that?
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(verb)/rɪˈpiːt/ /rɪˈpiːt/

    Verb Forms

  1. to say or write something again or more than once
    • to repeat a question/a claim/an assertion/a warning
    • to repeat a phrase/mantra
    • She repeated the word several times.
    • I'm sorry—could you repeat that?
    • She kept repeating his name softly over and over again.
    • The opposition have been repeating their calls for the president's resignation.
    • Are you prepared to repeat these allegations in court?
    • I mentioned it before, but it bears (= is worth) repeating.
    • Do say if I'm repeating myself (= if I have already said this).
    • He's fond of repeating that the company's success is all down to him.
    • ‘Are you really sure?’ she repeated.

    Extra Examples

    • ‘Oh,’ she repeated lamely.
    • I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists.
    • That message was still being repeated ad nauseam on the radio.
    • She kept repeating it over and over again like a robot.
  2. used to emphasize something that you have already said
    • The claims are, I repeat, totally unfounded.
    • Nor, to repeat, can these changes be avoided.
    • I am not, repeat not, travelling in the same car as him!
  3. to say something that somebody else has said, especially in order to learn it
    • The teacher's statement is then repeated by the students.
    • Listen and repeat each sentence after me.
    • Can you repeat what I've just said word for word?
    • ‘We were both asleep and didn’t hear anything,’ she repeated.

    Extra Examples

    • students repeating drills parrot-fashion
    • The students repeated each sentence after their teacher.
    • He repeated what she had said word for word.
  4. to tell somebody something that you have heard or been told by somebody else
    • I don't want you to repeat a word of this to anyone.
    • The rumour has been widely repeated in the press.

    Extra Examples

    • Why did you go and repeat what I said to Ian?
    • You must not repeat this to anyone.
    • She faithfully repeated everything he had told her.
  5. to do or produce something again or more than once
    • to repeat a mistake/process
    • to repeat an experiment/exercise
    • Organizers are hoping to repeat the success of last year's event.
    • He won his first Monaco Grand Prix in 1994 and repeated the feat in 1995, 1997 and 1999.
    • The treatment should be repeated every two to three hours.
    • They are hoping to repeat last year's victory.
    • These offers are unlikely to be repeated.
    • The programmes will be repeated next year.
    • to repeat a class/year/grade (= in a school, to take a class/year/grade again)
    • Lift and lower the right leg 20 times. Repeat with the left leg.

    Extra Examples

    • Try not to repeat your mistakes.
    • They constantly repeat the same mistakes.
    • There is no point in merely repeating what we've done before.
    • It may be necessary to repeat the dose several times to effect a cure.
  6. to happen more than once in the same way
    • History has a strange way of repeating itself.
    • This phrase is repeated at intervals throughout the song.
    • a repeating pattern/design
    • A single note repeated over and over again, throbbing in my head.
  7. if food repeats, you can taste it for some time after you have eaten it
    • Do you find that onions repeat on you?

    Word Origin

    • late Middle English: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, from re- ‘back’ + petere ‘seek’.
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