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re-cites

re-cites is the third-person singular simple present indicative of re-cite.

Meaning of re-cite

Verb

re-cite (third-person singular simple present re-cites, present participle re-citing, simple past and past participle re-cited)

  1. To cite again, as with a second or subsequent citation.
    • […] eleven of them refer to [Daniel] Corkery's book Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, which is fully re-cited in eleven different sections. It would have been more efficient to have cited Corkery's book fully one time and then re-cite it in abbreviated form in head notes to the other sections.1974, Journal of Irish Literature, volume 3, page 53

Questions about re-cites

What is re-cites the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Re-cites is the third-person singular simple present indicative of re-cite.

Words near re-cites in the dictionary

  1. re-Christianized
  2. re-Christianizes
  3. re-Christianizing
  4. re-cite
  5. re-cited
  6. re-cites
  7. re-citing
  8. re-clone
  9. re-cloned
  10. re-clones
  11. re-cloning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-cites (page history and authors); re-cite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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