repeat /ɹɪˈpiːt/verb 9noun 5forms 6phrases 1 verb9 •to do or say something again, sometimes many timesThe scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.I'll tell you my secret, but first promise me you won't repeat it to anyone else! •To refill (a prescription). •To happen again; recur.A day like that has not yet repeated itself. •To echo the words of (a person).Their rationale with repeating me was that the prior program had not been of sufficient quality to teach me the error of my ways. — 2008 •To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.Use "say again" instead of repeat on the radio. Repeat will bring in artillery fire. •To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate. •To strike the hours, as a watch does. •(Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received). •(no longer used) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town. — 1687 noun5 •An iteration; a repetition.We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring. •A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun. •A refill of a prescription. •A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated. •A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein). formsrepeated · repeatedst · repeating · repeateth · repeats · repeatest Phrases with repeat repeat onOf food that one has eaten: to cause one to burp.
