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Princeton's WordNet

  1. recite, retellverb

    render verbally, "recite a poem"

    "retell a story"

  2. fictionalize, fictionalise, retellverb

    make into fiction

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

  3. repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retellverb

    to say, state, or perform again

    "She kept reiterating her request"

Wiktionary

  1. retellverb

    To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Retellverb

    to tell again

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Retell

    rē-tel′, v.t. to tell again.

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  1. teller

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of retell in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of retell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of retell in a Sentence

  1. Mahtowin Munro:

    We go there every year, along with many nonindigenous allies, as well, to talk about the truth about Thanksgiving, we still have to retell the story because it's still not known well enough.

  2. Dejan Stojanovic:

    How does one say something new and not retell?

  3. Naser Alazari:

    We didn't want to retell the story of Covid as much as make Covid the universe that we're living in, we will preserve the spirit of' Grey's Anatomy' as Greys Anatomy is, and at the same time, be present for telling stories about the pandemic.

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