EGAVE

repeat

About 18.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To do or say again (and again).
    The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.
  2. verb To refill (a prescription).
  3. verb To happen again; recur.
    A day like that has not yet repeated itself.
  4. verb To echo the words of (a person).
  5. verb To strike the hours, as a watch does.
  6. verb To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  7. verb To repay or refund (an excess received).
  8. verb To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
    Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.

Similar words

restate reiterate ingeminate reprise repetition retell recur recapitulate duplicate replicate

Often followed by

the it this that what a of them his

Word family

repeatabilities repeatability repeatable repeated repeating repeats

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