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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (retold; -telling) Date: 1593 1. to tell again or in another form 2. to count again

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (past and past part. retold) tell again or in a different version.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Retell Re*tell, v. t. To tell again.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(retells, retelling, retold) If you retell a story, you write it, tell it, or present it again, often in a different way from its original form. Lucilla often asks her sisters to retell the story... VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

allegorize, battologize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, iterate, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say over again, storify, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tell, tell a story, unfold a tale