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retold

retold is the simple past and past participle of retell.

Meaning of retell

Verb

retell (third-person singular simple present retells, present participle retelling, simple past and past participle retold)

  1. To tell again, often differently, what one has read or heard; to paraphrase.
    • She will retell the story from her perspective in the next meeting.

Questions about retold

What is retold the simple past and past participle of?
Retold is the simple past and past participle of retell.

Words near retold in the dictionary

  1. retokenization
  2. retokenize
  3. retokenized
  4. retokenizes
  5. retokenizing
  6. retold
  7. retone
  8. retoned
  9. retones
  10. retoning
  11. retook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retold (page history and authors); retell (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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