单词 | restate |
释义 | restate (once / 5949 pages) v When you say something again, you restate it. If you give a speech, you might decide to express your main idea at the beginning and then restate it a second time, near the end. Often when you restate something, you say it in a slightly different, perhaps clearer way, with the intention of really getting your point across. A teacher might sweetly ask her class to come in from recess, and then restate her request five minutes later by saying, "If you aren't inside when I count to 30, there will be no recess tomorrow!" The verb restate combines the prefix re-, "again" in Latin, and state. WORD FAMILYrestate: restated, restatement, restates, restating+/interstate: interstates/misstate: misstated, misstatement, misstates, misstating/misstatement: misstatements/overstate: overstated, overstatement, overstates, overstating/overstatement: overstatements/restatement: restatements/state: interstate, intrastate, misstate, overstate, restate, stated, stateless, statement, stater, states, stating, understate/stated: statedly, unstated/statement: statements/stater: staters/understate: understated, understatement, understates, understating/understated: understatedly/understatement: understatements USAGE EXAMPLESComScore’s chief executive, chief financial officer and chairman were all forced to resign, and the company will restate three years of financial results. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) The United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union, Russia and the United States routinely restate their commitment to the concept. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) It was a position that was restated by his successor, Liz Truss. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) v to say, state, or perform again Syn|Hypo|Hyper ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, 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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