retell 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]

retell teller

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

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

retell (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

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

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

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "retell": 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

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