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Retell   /ritˈɛl/   Listen
Retell

verb
(past & past part. retold; pres. part. retelling)
1.
Render verbally,.  Synonym: recite.  "Retell a story"
2.
Make into fiction.  Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize.
3.
To say, state, or perform again.  Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate.






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"Retell" Quotes from Famous Books



... mysterious as at that moment. Even in the heat of excitement I stared at him in amazement, wishing in a hasty thought the confusion of the past few weeks had given me opportunity to penetrate the recesses of his mind, and therefrom retell you things better worth listening to than all the incident of my adventures. But now there was no time to think, scarce ...
— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

... and retell the story of the changing seasons by their growth, blossom, and decay, nothing can seem more artificial than the modern show-beds of full-grown plants which are removed by assiduous gardeners as soon as they have flowered, to be replaced by others, only in turn to bloom ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle



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