Synonyms for retell
retell

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1. recite, retellverb

   render verbally, "recite a poem"

   "retell a story"

   Synonyms:
   recount, ingeminate, fictionalise, iterate, reiterate, repeat, enumerate, fictionalize, restate, recite, declaim, tell, itemize, itemise, narrate

2. fictionalize, fictionalise, retellverb

   make into fiction

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

   Synonyms:
   fictionalise, iterate, reiterate, novelise, repeat, fictionalize, recite, novelize, ingeminate, restate

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

   to say, state, or perform again

   "She kept reiterating her request"

   Synonyms:
   repeat, reiterate, recite, duplicate, take over, recapitulate, reprize, restate, recur, echo, ingeminate, reprise, replicate, iterate, reduplicate, double, fictionalise, fictionalize

Matched Categories

1. • Re-create
   • Tell

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How to use 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.