The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

narrate \nar*rate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narrated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Narrating.] [L. narratus, p. p. of narrare to
   narrate, prob. for gnarigare, fr. gnarus knowing. See
   Ignore, Know.]
   To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the
   particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident
   or transaction; to give an account of.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To relate; recount; detail; describe.
        [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

narrate
    v 1: provide commentary for a film, for example
    2: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened";
       "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell,
       narrate, recount, recite]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrate":
   allegorize, chronicle, descant, describe, detail, dilate,
   discourse, expatiate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, mythicize,
   mythify, mythologize, novelize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate,
   repeat, report, retail, retell, reveal, review, romance, state,
   storify, tell, tell a story, unfold, unfold a tale