Word Study
retell
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb retell has 3 senses
- retell(v = verb.creation) recite - render verbally,; "recite a poem"; "retell a story" is one way to re-create
- retell(v = verb.creation) fictionalise, fictionalize - make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" is one way to re-create
- retell(v = verb.communication) ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" is one way to tell
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Somebody ----s something
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Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
They won't retell the story
OXFORD DICTIONARY
retell, v.tr. (past and past part. retold) tell again or in a different version.
THESAURUS
retell
allegorize, battologize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, iterate, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say over again, storify, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tell, tell a story, unfold a tale
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