restate
When you say something again, you restate it. If you give a speech, you might decide to express your main idea at the beginning and then restate it a second time, near the end.
Often when you restate something, you say it in a slightly different, perhaps clearer way, with the intention of really getting your point across. A teacher might sweetly ask her class to come in from recess, and then restate her request five minutes later by saying, “If you aren’t inside when I count to 30, there will be no recess tomorrow!” The verb restate combines the prefix re-, “again” in Latin, and state.
Definitions of restate
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to say, state, or perform again
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synonyms:
ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell-
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perseverate
psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus
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ditto
repeat an action or statement
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dwell, harp
come back to
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interpret, render, translate
restate (words) from one language into another language
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paraphrase, rephrase, reword
express the same message in different words
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resume, sum up, summarise, summarize
give a summary (of)
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cite, quote
repeat a passage from
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retranslate
translate again
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mistranslate
translate incorrectly
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gloss
provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
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Latinize
translate into Latin
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translate
express, as in simple and less technical language
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abstract
give an abstract (of)
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precis
make a summary (of)
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docket
make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
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recap, recapitulate
summarize briefly
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misquote
quote incorrectly
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type of:
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tell
let something be known
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