Term for When Something Keeps Dheoing Up Again and Again

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verb (used with object)

to say or utter over again (something already said): to echo a word for accent.

to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to echo a sentence after the teacher.

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

to tell (something heard) to another or others.

to do, brand, or perform again: to echo an activity.

to get through or undergo again: to repeat an experience.

verb (used without object)

to do or say something again.

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

to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same ballot.

noun

the human action of repeating.

something repeated; repetition.

a duplicate or reproduction of something.

a decorative pattern repeated, usually past printing, on a material 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 boob tube program that has been broadcast at least once before.

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Origin of repeat

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

synonym study for repeat

ane, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to proverb a affair more than once. To echo is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an guild. To restate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a soapbox: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to practice or say something over and over over again, to echo insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand.

OTHER WORDS FROM echo

Words nearby echo

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

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How to use repeat in a sentence

British Lexicon definitions for repeat


verb

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

to practice or experience (something) again one time or several times

(intr) to occur more than once the last figure repeats

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

(tr) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from retentivity; recite

(intr)

  1. (of nutrient) 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 another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to 1 by someone else)

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

(intr) U.s.a. to vote (illegally) more than in one case in a single ballot

repeat oneself to say or do the same thing more than once, esp then as to be tiresome

noun

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

a give-and-take, activeness, etc, that is repeated

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

a indistinguishable copy of something; reproduction

radio television set a further broadcast of a programme, moving-picture show, etc, which has been broadcast before

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

Derived forms of echo

repeatability, substantive repeatable, adjective

Word Origin for repeat

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

usage for repeat

Since again is part of the pregnant of repeat, one should not say something is repeated once again

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