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Noun: repeating  ru'pee-ting
  1. The act of doing or performing again
    - repetition
Verb: repeat  ri'peet
  1. To say, state, or perform again
    "She kept repeating her request"
    - reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
     
  2. Make or do or perform again
    "He could never repeat his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
    - duplicate, reduplicate, double, replicate
     
  3. Happen or occur again
    "This is a repeating story"
    - recur, reoccur
     
  4. To say again or imitate
    "followers repeating the cries of their leaders"
    - echo
     
  5. Do over
    - take over
     
  6. Repeat an earlier theme of a composition
    - reprise, reprize, recapitulate

Derived forms: repeatings

See also: repeater, repetition, repetitive

Type of: act, come about, continuance, continuation, emit, fall out, go on, hap, happen, let loose, let out, move, occur, pass, pass off, play, reproduce, spiel, take place, tell, utter

Encyclopedia: Repeat