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re-speak

re-speak is the alternative spelling of respeak.

Meaning of respeak

Verb

respeak (third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken)

  1. To speak or utter again.
  2. To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.
  3. (obsolete, poetic) To answer; to echo.
    • And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
      Re-speaking earthly thunder.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Forms of re-speak

third-person singular presentre-speaks
present participlere-speaking
pastre-spoke
past participlere-spoken
past (archaic)re-spake

Questions about re-speak

What is re-speak the alternative spelling of?
Re-speak is the alternative spelling of respeak.

Words near re-speak in the dictionary

  1. re-Sovietization
  2. re-Sovietize
  3. re-Sovietized
  4. re-Sovietizes
  5. re-Sovietizing
  6. re-speak
  7. re-spec
  8. re-spread
  9. re-spreading
  10. re-spreads
  11. re-state

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-speak (page history and authors); respeak (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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