[ UK /ɹɪpˈiːt/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈpit, ɹɪˈpit/ ]
VERB
  1. repeat an earlier theme of a composition
  2. do over
    They would like to take it over again
  3. make or do or perform again
    He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick
  4. to say again or imitate
    followers echoing the cries of their leaders
  5. to say, state, or perform again
    She kept reiterating her request
  6. happen or occur again
    This is a recurring story
NOUN
  1. an event that repeats
    the events today were a repeat of yesterday's
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How To Use repeat In A Sentence

  • Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.’
  • He did not want a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat he had suffered.
  • As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
  • When the cupel shows signs of the presence of these metals in objectionable quantity, it is well to repeat the assay and scorify so as to remove them before cupellation. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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