AGAIN AND AGAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does again and again mean? 

• AGAIN AND AGAIN (adverb)
  The adverb AGAIN AND AGAIN has 1 sense:

1. repeatedly

  Familiarity information: AGAIN AND AGAIN used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGAIN AND AGAIN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeatedly

Synonyms:

again and again; over and over; over and over again; time and again; time and time again

Context example:

the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text

 Context examples 

She pecked him again and again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Challenger and I ran Summerlee along, one at each of his elbows, while Lord John covered our retreat, firing again and again as savage heads snarled at us out of the bushes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He read the letter through again and again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was greatly overcome, and could only thank her, again and again, and send my love to Mr. Dick.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Half-stunned by the blow, Buck was knocked backward and the lash laid upon him again and again, while Spitz soundly punished the many times offending Pike.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

You put the very question which I have asked myself again and again.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)