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Verb: retell (retold)  ree'tel
  1. Render verbally
    "retell a story"
    - recite
     
  2. Make into fiction
    "The writer retold the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
    - fictionalize, fictionalise [Brit]
     
  3. To say, state, or perform again
    "She kept retelling her request"
    - repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate

Derived forms: retells, retelling, retold

Type of: re-create, tell