retalkv.
/ˌriːˈtɔːk/, U.S. /riˈtɔk/, /riˈtɑk/ transitive. To discuss (a matter) for a second or further time. Also with over.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)] > discuss or confer about > again or afterwards
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a1797 H. Walpole Reminisc. in Wks. (1798) IV. vii. 305 Sometimes the king would quash the proposal in question; and yield after re-talking it over with her.
1831 New Estate iv. 236 Drawing her chair close to her sister, she continued to retalk all she had just heard.
1894 F. R. Stockton Ardis Claverden ix. 99 The whole of the milk-route business was told again and retalked over.
1906 J. H. Edge Irish Utopia xxx. 243 He and the good old priest soon got on the all-absorbing topic of the trial, and they talked and re-talked it over and over again.
1929 E. F. Dakin Mrs. Eddy i. ii. 24 Any subject of fresh interest in a community was talked and re-talked and discussed still again until its last drop of life was wrung away.
1980 Feminist Stud. 6 316 The two of us talked and retalked the issue.
2004 E. Kelly Atlatl lviii. 237 He had to talk and retalk his plan to someone, and Ichifu seemed to have boundless energy and a keen mind for details.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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