retell
verb (used with object)
to tell (a story, tale, etc.) over again or in a new way.
had retold
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past perfectof retell.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She couldn’t help but wonder how Mr. Marsden had retold last night’s encounter.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
The classical story of Lucretia’s ravishment and suicide is briefly recorded in Ovid’s ‘Fasti,’ but Chaucer had retold it in his ‘Legend of Good Women,’ and Shakespeare must have read it there.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
