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/rɪpˈitɪd/ /ripˈitəd/ /ripˈitɪd/ Listen

verb

Repeat v. t. (past & past part. repeated; pres. part. repeating)

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." "Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish."

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. (Obs.)

(Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

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.

Synonyms: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

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... language it spoke. They told me that it was quite young and did not speak at all yet, so I bought it for ten guineas. I thought I would teach the bird a pretty speech, so I had the cage hung by my bed, and repeated dozens of times every day the following sentence: "The Charpillon is a ...

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... campaign against de Freece by skying his first ball over cover's head to the boundary. A howl of delight went up from the school, which was repeated, fortissimo, when, more by accident than by accurate timing, the captain put on two more fours past extra-cover. The bowler's cheerful smile ...

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... arrived. Smith delivered up the Indian Namontuck, who had just returned from a voyage to England—whither it was suspected the Emperor wished him to go to spy out the weakness of the English tribe—and repeated Father Newport's request that Powhatan would come to Jamestown to receive the presents and join in an expedition against ...

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... incomparably faster than that of radiating or conducting away from the surface of the collision. In the eye of the observer a single impact of the atoms would cause an instantaneous flash, but if the impacts were repeated with sufficient rapidity they would produce a continuous impression upon his retina. To him then the surface of the metal would appear continuously incandescent and of constant luminous intensity, while in reality the light would be either intermittent or at least changing ...

— Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High - Frequency • Nikola Tesla

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... fetching water from the river, sat down on the grass to their frugal repast. I stole softly to the house, and ordering a servant to bring some wine and cold provisions, returned to my squaws. I asked them in French if they were of Lorette, they shook their heads—I repeated the question in English, when the eldest of the women told me they were not, that their country was on the borders of New England, that their husbands being on a hunting party in the woods, curiosity and the desire to see their brethren, ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

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