Definition of repeat

"repeat" in the noun sense

1. repeat, repetition

an event that repeats

"the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"

"repeat" in the verb sense

1. repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell

to say, state, or perform again

"She kept reiterating her request"

2. duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate

make or do or perform again

"He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

3. recur, repeat

happen or occur again

"This is a recurring story"

4. repeat, echo

to say again or imitate

"followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

5. repeat, take over

do over

"They would like to take it over again"

6. reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate

repeat an earlier theme of a composition

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Quotations for repeat

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play.
And wild and sweet, The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! [ Longfellow ]

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play.
Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day. [ Claudius ]

If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it. [ Proverb ]

Only sentimentalists can repeat an emotion. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Wise men make proverbs, and fools repeat them. [ Proverb ]

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Boerhaave ]

The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. They are sparks, said he, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Disraeli ]

All the makers of dictionaries, all compilers who do nothing else than repeat backwards and forwards the opinions, the errors, the impostures, and the truths already printed, we may term plagiarists: but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. [ Voltaire ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. [ R. L, Stevenson ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

repeat in Scrabble®

The word repeat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters repeat:

REPEAT
(33)
RETAPE
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word repeat

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REPEAT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In repeat

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RETAPE
(33)
APTER
(30)
PATER
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repeat in Words With Friends™

The word repeat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters repeat:

REPEAT
(57)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word repeat

REPEAT
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(9)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In repeat

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(57)
RETAPE
(51)
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(51)
PATER
(48)
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Word Growth involving repeat

Shorter words in repeat

at eat peat

pe pea peat

re

Longer words containing repeat

nonrepeat nonrepeated

nonrepeat nonrepeater nonrepeaters

nonrepeat nonrepeating

repeatabilities

repeatability unrepeatability

repeatable unrepeatable

repeatably

repeatal

repeated nonrepeated

repeated repeatedly

repeated unrepeated

repeater nonrepeater nonrepeaters

repeater repeaters nonrepeaters

repeating nonrepeating

repeating repeatings

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