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respoke

respoke is the simple past 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...

Verb

respoke (third-person singular simple present respokes, present participle respoking, simple past and past participle respoked)

  1. (transitive) To fit (a wheel) with new spokes.

Forms of respoke

third-person singular presentrespokes
present participlerespoking
past participlerespoked
pastrespoked

Origin of respoke

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From re- + spoke.

Words that rhyme with respoke

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Questions about respoke

What does respoke mean?
Respoke means to fit (a wheel) with new spokes.
What is respoke the simple past of?
Respoke is the simple past of respeak.
What part of speech is respoke?
Respoke is a verb.
What is the past tense of respoke?
The past tense of respoke is respoked.

Words near respoke in the dictionary

  1. resplicing
  2. resplicings
  3. resplit
  4. resplits
  5. resplitting
  6. respoke
  7. respoked
  8. respoken
  9. respokes
  10. respoking
  11. responaut

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respoke (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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