单词 | reiterate |
释义 | reiterate (once / 918 pages) v To reiterate something is to say or do something again, or many times. Let me reiterate: if you repeat yourself, you're reiterating the thing you originally said. This verb is from Middle English reiteraten, from Latin reiteratus, from reiterare "to repeat," from the prefix re- "again" plus iterare "to repeat, iterate." The English word iterate has the same meaning as reiterate, although it is not as commonly used. WORD FAMILYreiterate: reiterated, reiterates, reiterating, reiteration, reiterative+/iterate: iterated, iterates, iterating, iteration, iterative, reiterate/iteration: iterations/iterative: iteratively/reiteration: reiterations USAGE EXAMPLESTo reiterate: A story about a severe weather event that didn’t happen was more popular than most stories about events that did. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Speaking ahead of the Centennial Classic, Bettman reiterated that NHL owners were reluctant to return for a sixth consecutive Olympics. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The 37-year-old receiver reiterated last week that he’s likely retiring. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) v to say, state, or perform again She kept reiterating her request Syn|Hypo|Hyper ingeminate, iterate, repeat, restate, retell perseverate psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus dittorepeat an action or statement dwell, harpcome back to interpret, render, translaterestate (words) from one language into another language paraphrase, rephrase, rewordexpress the same message in different words resume, sum up, summarise, summarizegive a summary (of) cite, quoterepeat a passage from retranslatetranslate again mistranslatetranslate incorrectly glossprovide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase Latinizetranslate into Latin translateexpress, as in simple and less technical language abstractgive an abstract (of) precismake a summary (of) docketmake a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list recap, recapitulatesummarize briefly misquotequote incorrectly tell let something be known |
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