RETELL (retold)

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Irregular inflected form: retold   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does retell mean? 

• RETELL (verb)
  The verb RETELL has 3 senses:

1. render verbally

2. make into fiction

3. to say, state, or perform again

  Familiarity information: RETELL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETELL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they retell    ... he / she / it retells   
Past simple: retold   
Past participle: retold   
-ing form: retelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render verbally

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

recite; retell

Context example:

retell a story

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

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into fiction

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

fictionalise; fictionalize; retell

Context example:

The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel

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

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

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 "retell" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

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

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

Sentence example:

They won't retell the story

 Context examples 

The tale of the tortoise and the hare is being retold.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth that was first proposed by a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)