restate
Other forms: restated; restating; restates
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.
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to say, state, or perform againsynonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retelltypes:perseveratepsychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulusdittorepeat an action or statementretranslatetranslate againmistranslatetranslate incorrectlyglossprovide an interlinear translation of a word or phrasetranslateexpress, as in simple and less technical languageabstractgive an abstract (of)precismake a summary (of)docketmake a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a listmisquotequote incorrectlytype of:telllet something be known
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