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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repeated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Repeating}.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere;
     pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See {Petition}.]
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     1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to
        iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or


        a poem. "I will repeat our former communication."
        --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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              Not well conceived of God; who, though his power
              Creation could repeat, yet would be loth
              Us to abolish.                        --Milton.
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     2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
        [Obs.] --Waller.
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     3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).
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     {To repeat one's self}, to do or say what one has already
        done or said.
  
     {To repeat signals}, to make the same signals again;
        specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the
        signals shown at headquarters.
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     Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse;
          recapitulate. See {Reiterate}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repeated
       adj : recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate
             the requirements" [syn: {perennial}, {recurrent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "repeated":
     ceaseless, chattering, constant, continual, doubled, duplicated,
     echoed, incessant, machine gun, oscillating, perennial, perpetual,
     plagiarized, pulsating, quoted, rapid, rechauffe, redoubled,
     reduplicated, reechoed, regular, regurgitated, reiterate,
     reiterated, reproduced, retold, staccato, steady, stuttering,
     sustained, twice-told, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging,
     unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted,
     unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, warmed up
  
  

















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