REITERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reiterate mean? 

• REITERATE (verb)
  The verb REITERATE has 1 sense:

1. to say, state, or perform again

  Familiarity information: REITERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REITERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reiterate    ... he / she / it reiterates   
Past simple: reiterated   
Past participle: reiterated   
-ing form: reiterating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To say, state, or perform again

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell

Context example:

She kept reiterating her request

Hypernyms (to "reiterate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reiterate"):

perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)

ditto (repeat an action or statement)

dwell; harp (come back to)

interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

cite; quote (repeat a passage from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

reiteration (the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof))

reiterative (marked by iteration)

 Context examples 

"Solitude! solitude!" he reiterated with irritation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Does it die?" he reiterated. "You are a painter-man. Maybe you know."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Pig! Pig! Pig!” he was reiterating at the top of his lungs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Scatter and find 'em! Rout the house out!” reiterated Pew, striking with his stick upon the road.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was something that touched me as I read this letter, something pitiable in the reiterated appeals to bring Holmes.

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

"We've got six dogs," the other reiterated dispassionately.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

How hard it was to reiterate firmly, "I am going."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As a preliminary to another journey to his bunk, he hooked Wolf Larsen’s buttonhole with a greasy forefinger and vacuously proclaimed and reiterated, I got money, I got money, I tell yer, an’ I’m a gentleman’s son.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The young lady thus claimed as the dowager's special property, reiterated her question with an explanation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)