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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To relate or tell again or in a different form.
  • transitive verb To count again.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To tell again.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tell again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make into fiction
  • verb render verbally,
  • verb to say, state, or perform again

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