"retells" in the verb sense
1. recite, retell
render verbally
"recite a poem"
"retell a story"
2. fictionalize, fictionalise, retell
make into fiction
"The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
3. repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
to say, state, or perform again
"She kept reiterating her request"
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