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UK
/ɹɪsˈaɪt/
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[ US /ɹəˈsaɪt/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈsaɪt/ ]
VERB
-
specify individually
She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered
The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug -
repeat aloud from memory
The pupil recited his lesson for the day
she recited a poem -
render verbally
recite a poem
retell a story -
narrate or give a detailed account of
The father told a story to his child
Tell what happened - recite in elocution
How To Use recite In A Sentence
- Gawain responded that even if he taught her all he knew, and recited romances to her, she was already a hundred times more versed in love than he.
- As the family mourns and close relatives shave their heads, the body is transported to the funeral ghat (bank along a river), where prayers are recited.
- she recited a poem
- As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! ' Arabian nights. English
- She could recite large portions of Shakespeare.
- Many sports fans who would rather watch the Super Bowl with a bunch of beer-swilling buddies than be present at the birth of their first child often recite that fired old saw about hockey being more violent than any other sport.
- She recites the facts of his death the way they came to her… just as she was told them.
- Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
- He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
- In the sittings she'd often talk about literature with her father and he would recite poetry to her. Times, Sunday Times