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1. Repeat aloud from memory
   "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"
    
2. Speak eloquently with elocution
   - declaim
    
3. Render verbally
   "recite a poem";
   - retell
    
4. Narrate or give a detailed account of
   "recite what happened";
   - tell, narrate, recount, retail[2]
    
5. Specify individually
   "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug";
   - enumerate, itemize, itemise [Brit]

Derived forms: recited, reciting, recites

Type of: do, echo, execute, identify, inform, name, perform, re-create, repeat

Encyclopedia: Recite