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/rɪpˈitɪd/ /ripˈitəd/ /ripˈitɪd/ Listen

verb

Repeat v. t. (past & past part. repeated; pres. part. repeating)

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." "Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish."

To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. (Obs.)

(Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.

To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

Synonyms: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

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Etymology of 'Repeated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Repeated" Quotes from Famous Books

... writers who are content to receive their information at second hand without investigating evidence for themselves, generally assume that no other view is possible. Thus O'Connell boldly asserted that the Irish Catholics never assented to the Union. Others have blindly repeated his words; and from those reiterated statements has been developed an argument that as the Catholics did not assent to the Union, they cannot be bound ...

— Is Ulster Right? • Anonymous

... was dreaming of Paul, but not happily. She seemed to see him in trouble. Then she woke suddenly, with all her senses alert, and sat up. Faintly she heard a wild cry, and then came the twelve strokes of the church bells announcing midnight. Breathlessly she waited, but the cry was not repeated. In the darkness she sat up listening until the quarter chimed. Then the measured footsteps of a policeman were heard passing down the street and dying away. Sylvia was terrified. Why, she hardly knew: but she sprang from her bed and hurried into Deborah's room. "Wake up," ...

— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... "Yes," I repeated; in fear nevertheless, that my lie might in some way incriminate me. Yet how could I tell him of my suspicion of Phrida. That secret was mine—and mine alone, and, if necessary, I would carry it ...

— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux

... you, I love you!" Glenn repeated it like a litany. "Nancy! Does it make you as happy because I love you as it makes ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... was through he sat for a while in deep thought. He paid no attention to the click of the typewriters in the adjoining room, and so engrossed was he that he did not at first hear a tap upon the office door. When it was repeated, he started from his reverie and called to the visitor to enter, thinking that perhaps it was one of the clerks. It was not his habit to be caught off guard, for he prided himself upon his alertness and strict attention to every ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

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