reiterate

[ ree-it-uh-reyt ]

/ riˈɪt əˌreɪt /

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verb (used with object), re·it·er·at·ed, re·it·er·at·ing.

to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.

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Origin of reiterate

First recorded in 1520–30; from Latin reiterātus, past participle of reiterāre “to repeat,” equivalent to re- re- + iterāre “to repeat,” derivative of iterum “again”; see -ate¹

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See repeat.

OTHER WORDS FROM reiterate

re·it·er·a·ble, adjectivere·it·er·a·tion

[ree-it-uh-rey-shuhn], /riˌɪt əˈreɪ ʃən/, nounre·it·er·a·tive

[ree-it-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv], /riˈɪt əˌreɪ tɪv, -ər ə tɪv/, adjectiveun·re·it·er·a·ble, adjective

un·re·it·er·at·ing, adjectiveun·re·it·er·a·tive, adjective

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How to use reiterate in a sentence

After winning the tournament at Torrey Pines in San Diego by five strokes over five other players, Reed reiterated his assertions that event officials told him everything he did was fine.
Patrick Reed ends up in another golf rules dispute before winning Farmers Insurance Open|Cindy Boren, Des Bieler|February 1, 2021|Washington Post
Speaking in Spanish, Silveti refused to talk about the mission, and disavowed his own book, Secuestro, over issues with his ghostwriter, but reiterated the claim that he saved the United States.
Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite|Bobbie Johnson|January 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Hot 3-point streaks can build leads — and to reiterate, the Raptors have held double-digit leads in six of their losses — but low-variance shots, like those taken around the rim, are required to hold leads.
The Toronto Raptors Can’t Seem To Finish Their Drives|Louis Zatzman|January 27, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Manchin reiterated his position after the 2020 election — though before Democrats retook the Senate by winning both Georgia runoffs — by saying, “I will not vote to do that.”
What McConnell got — and didn’t — on the filibuster|Aaron Blake|January 26, 2021|Washington Post

Three of the sisters, Earlene, Angela and Lisa, went to Treyburn on April 6 to reiterate the demand that their mother be transferred to a hospital for treatment, Howze states through her complaint.
The Nursing Home Didn’t Send Her to the Hospital, and She Died|by Sean Campbell|January 8, 2021|ProPublica
When she awoke next morning raindrops were beating a reiterative plaint against the window, and the sound seemed very beautiful.
Missy|Dana Gatlin
He was equally particular and reiterative in his account of his slow recovery.
Captain Ravenshaw|Robert Neilson Stephens
In the former case, thought is futilely reiterative; in the latter, it is falsificatory.
Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey
It is this reiterative nature which, joined to its schematic definiteness, gives Empathy its extraordinary power over us.
The Beautiful|Vernon Lee
A sense of fear inspired by no facts but by the reiterative rhetoric of the press swept the city.
Gargoyles|Ben Hecht

British Dictionary definitions for reiterate

reiterate

/ (riːˈɪtəˌreɪt) /

verb

(tr; may take a clause as object) to say or do again or repeatedly

Derived forms of reiterate

reiterant, adjectivereiteration, nounreiterative, adjectivereiteratively, adverb

Word Origin for reiterate

C16: from Latin reiterāre to repeat, from re- + iterāre to do again, from iterum again

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