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respeaking

respeaking is the present participle and gerund 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...

Questions about respeaking

What is respeaking the present participle and gerund of?
Respeaking is the present participle and gerund of respeak.

Words near respeaking in the dictionary

  1. respawning
  2. respawns
  3. respeak
  4. respeaker
  5. respeakers
  6. respeaking
  7. respeaks
  8. respec
  9. respec'
  10. respec'ful
  11. respecced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respeaking (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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