repeating

Verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

1. (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
   • The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.

   Synonyms:

   redo

2. (transitive, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
3. (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
   • A day like that has not yet repeated itself.

   Synonyms:

   reoccur

4. (transitive) 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, Ken Jensen, Ronda Del Boccio, It Takes Guts to Be Me: How an Ex-marine Beat Bipolar Disorder
5. (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
   • He[…] repeats the danger of the burning town.a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands

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