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[syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere;
pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]
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1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to
iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or
a poem. "I will repeat our former communication."
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Not well conceived of God; who, though his power
Creation could repeat, yet would be loth
Us to abolish. --Milton.
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2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
[Obs.] --Waller.
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3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).
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To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already
done or said.
To repeat signals, to make the same signals again;
specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the
signals shown at headquarters.
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Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse;
recapitulate. See Reiterate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
repeated
adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to
stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial,
recurrent, repeated]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "repeated":
ceaseless, chattering, constant, continual, doubled, duplicated,
echoed, incessant, machine gun, oscillating, perennial, perpetual,
plagiarized, pulsating, quoted, rapid, rechauffe, redoubled,
reduplicated, reechoed, regular, regurgitated, reiterate,
reiterated, reproduced, retold, staccato, steady, stuttering,
sustained, twice-told, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging,
unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted,
unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, warmed up