[ UK /ɹɪsˈa‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈsaɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. specify individually
    She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered
    The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug
  2. repeat aloud from memory
    The pupil recited his lesson for the day
    she recited a poem
  3. render verbally
    recite a poem
    retell a story
  4. narrate or give a detailed account of
    The father told a story to his child
    Tell what happened
  5. recite in elocution
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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
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