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UK
/ɹɪpˈiːt/
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[ US /ɹiˈpit, ɹɪˈpit/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈpit, ɹɪˈpit/ ]
VERB
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
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do over
They would like to take it over again -
make or do or perform again
He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick -
to say again or imitate
followers echoing the cries of their leaders -
to say, state, or perform again
She kept reiterating her request -
happen or occur again
This is a recurring story
NOUN
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an event that repeats
the events today were a repeat of yesterday's
How To Use repeat In A Sentence
- Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more.
- We then repeat this fractionation process on these 10 compounds, rescreen them and find the active one, and then identify what that compound is. Odette Yustman in GQ Magazine
- The camera zooms in on a book of sheets that each particpant holds, and each scene repeats a couple of times as a zoetrope would before the page turns and a new sequence begins. Leftfield and Looping « Squares of Wheat
- The State Department contacted American embassies around the world to make sure that they repeated the line that it was an aberration and not in line with American ‘values.’
- The bladelike projections behaved like serpents, attacking and recoiling repeatedly. Reap the Whirlwind
- A judicial committee rejected his allegations and recommended that criminal charges of libel should be brought against anyone repeating them. Times, Sunday Times
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- They do not strengthen their case by repeating their horror. Times, Sunday Times
- The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
- Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.