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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REIT'ERATE, v.t. [L. re and itero.]
To repeat; to repeat again and again; as reiterated crimes; to reiterate requests.

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]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare to repeat, from re- + iterare to iterate Date: 15th century to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect • reiteration noun • reiterative adjective • reiteratively adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. say or do again or repeatedly. Derivatives: reiteration n. reiterative adj. Etymology: L reiterare (as RE-, ITERATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reiterate Re*it"er*ate (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (-[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. r['e]it['e]rer, LL. reiterare to question again.] To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. --Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. --Shak. Syn: To repeat; recapitulate; rehearse.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reiterate Re*it"er*ate (-?t), a. Reiterated; repeated. [R.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reiterates, reiterating, reiterated) If you reiterate something, you say it again, usually in order to emphasize it. (FORMAL JOURNALISM) He reiterated his opposition to the creation of a central bank... I want to reiterate that our conventional weapons are superior. = repeat VERB: V n, V that • reiteration (reiterations) It was really a reiteration of the same old entrenched positions. = repetition N-VAR: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Repeat, repeat again, do again and again.

Moby Thesaurus

battologize, doubled, duplicated, dwell on, echoed, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, harp on, ingeminate, iterate, labor, pad, plagiarized, practice, quoted, reaffirm, reassert, recap, recapitulate, rechauffe, recite, recount, redoubled, reduplicated, reechoed, regurgitated, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterated, renew, repeat, repeated, reprint, reprise, reproduced, resay, restate, resume, retail, retell, retold, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, sum up, summarize, tautologize, twice-told, warmed up