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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IT'ERATE, v.t. [L. itero, to repeat, from iter, a going.]
To repeat; to utter or do a second time; as, to iterate advice or admonition; to iterate a trepass.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
2: run or be performed again; "the function iterates"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Latin iteratus, past participle of iterare, from iterum again; akin to Latin is he, that, ita thus, Sanskrit itara the other, iti thus Date: 1533 to say or do again or again and again ; reiterate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. repeat; state repeatedly. Derivatives: iteration n. Etymology: L iterare iterat- f. iterum again

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Iterate It"er*ate, a. [L. iteratus, p. p. of iterare to repeat, fr. iterum again, prop. a compar. from the stem of is he, that; cf. L. ita so, item likewise, also, Skr. itara other, iti thus. Cf. Identity, Item.] Uttered or done again; repeated. [Obs.] --Bp. Gardiner.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Iterate It"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Iterating.] To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Iterate It"er*ate, adv. By way of iteration.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Repeat, reiterate.

Moby Thesaurus

battologize, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, ingeminate, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, renew, reprint, reprise, resay, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, sum up, summarize, tautologize