3 definitions found 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}.] [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster] Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] --Waller. [1913 Webster] 3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received). [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See {Reiterate}. [1913 Webster] 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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