RESTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restate mean? 

• RESTATE (verb)
  The verb RESTATE has 1 sense:

1. to say, state, or perform again

  Familiarity information: RESTATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they restate    ... he / she / it restates   
Past simple: restated   
Past participle: restated   
-ing form: restating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To say, state, or perform again

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell

Context example:

She kept reiterating her request

Hypernyms (to "restate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "restate"):

perseverate (psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus)

ditto (repeat an action or statement)

dwell; harp (come back to)

interpret; render; translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

paraphrase; rephrase; reword (express the same message in different words)

resume; sum up; summarise; summarize (give a summary (of))

cite; quote (repeat a passage from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

restatement (a revised statement)