retell

Verb

Meaning

To tell again.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

repeat recite iterate reiterate restate ingeminate fictionalize fictionalise echo ditto din tell relate reproduce quote
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Antonyms

question ask hide suppress forget conceal
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Hypernyms

tell re-create

Hyponyms

ditto render interpret quote translate resume

Derivatives

retold

Anagrams

teller

Examples

When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. C. J. Cherryh

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. Jean-Paul Sartre

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell. Louisa May Alcott

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it. Elizabeth Warren

... it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing... Galway Kinnell

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler

Close letter words and terms

retelegraph retelephone retelevise reteller retelling retelliptine