When Someone Does Things Over and Over Again What Is That Called

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verb (used with object)

to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.

to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of some other: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.

to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the style of an echo, a phonograph, or the similar.

to tell (something heard) to some other or others.

to do, make, or perform over again: to repeat an action.

to go through or undergo again: to echo an experience.

verb (used without object)

to practise or say something once again.

to crusade a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.

to vote illegally by casting more 1 vote in the aforementioned election.

noun

the act of repeating.

something repeated; repetition.

a duplicate or reproduction of something.

a decorative pattern repeated, unremarkably by printing, on a textile or the similar.

Music.

  1. a passage to be repeated.
  2. a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.

a radio or telly program that has been broadcast at least once before.

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Origin of echo

Kickoff recorded in 1325–75; Middle English repeten (verb), from Middle French repeter, from Latin repetere "to attack over again, demand return of," equivalent to re-re- + petere "to reach towards, seek" (cf. perpetual, petulant)

synonym study for repeat

1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to maxim a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an gild. To recapitulate is to restate in brief course, to summarize, oft by repeating the principal points in a soapbox: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.

OTHER WORDS FROM repeat

Words nearby repeat

repast, repatriate, repatriation, repay, repeal, echo, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeating decimal, repeating firearm

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How to utilise repeat in a sentence

British Lexicon definitions for repeat


verb

(when tr, may take a clause every bit object) to say or write (something) again, either once or several times; restate or reiterate

to practice or experience (something) once again once or several times

(intr) to occur more than than in one case the last figure repeats

(tr; may have a clause equally object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo

(tr) to utter (a poem, spoken communication, etc) from memory; recite

(intr)

  1. (of food) to be tasted again afterwards ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  2. to belch

(tr; may have a clause as object) to tell to some other person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one past someone else)

(intr) (of a clock) to strike the hr or quarter-hour simply past, when a bound is pressed

(intr) United states to vote (illegally) more than once in a single ballot

echo oneself to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious

noun

  1. the human action or an instance of repeating
  2. (as modifier) a repeat performance

a word, activeness, etc, that is repeated

an order made out for appurtenances, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order

a duplicate copy of something; reproduction

radio television a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been broadcast before

music a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it

Derived forms of repeat

repeatability, substantive repeatable, describing word

Discussion Origin for repeat

C14: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek once again, from re- + petere to seek

usage for repeat

Since over again is part of the meaning of echo, one should not say something is repeated again

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