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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RECOUNT', v.t. [re and count.]
To relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars; to rehearse.
Say from these glorious seeds what harvest flows, recount our blessings, and compare our woes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election v
1: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite]
2: count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French recunter, from re- + cunter to count, relate — more at count Date: 15th century to relate in detail ; narrate • recounter noun II. transitive verb Etymology: re- + count Date: 1764 to count again III. noun Date: 1884 a second or fresh count

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 narrate. 2 tell in detail. Etymology: ONF & AF reconter (as RE-, COUNT(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recount Re*count" (r[=e]*kount"), v. t. [Pref. re- + count.] To count or reckon again.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recount Re*count", n. A counting again, as of votes.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recount Re*count" (r[-e]*kount"), v. t. [F. raconter to relate, to recount; pref. re- again + ? (L. ad.) + conter to relate. See Count, v.] To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings. --Dryden. To all his angels, who, with true applause, Recount his praises. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(recounted) 1. If you recount a story or event, you tell or describe it to people. (FORMAL) He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job... He recounted how heavily armed soldiers forced him from the presidential palace. VERB: V n, V wh 2. A recount is a second count of votes in an election when the result is very close. She wanted a recount. She couldn't believe that I had got more votes than her. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Rehearse, relate, recite, narrate, enumerate, detail, describe, particularize, tell, give an account of, repeat.

Moby Thesaurus

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