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respoken

respoken is the past participle 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 respoken

What is respoken the past participle of?
Respoken is the past participle of respeak.

Words near respoken in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: respoken (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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