Dictionary Definition
retell
Verb
1 render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a
story" [syn: recite]
2 make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized
the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize, fictionalise]
3 to say, state, or perform again; "She kept
reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate] [also: retold]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Verb
- To tell again.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
allegorize, battologize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, fill, give an encore, go over, go
through, iterate,
mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say
over again, storify, sum
up, summarize,
tautologize,
tell, tell a story, unfold
a tale