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Verb: recite  ri'sIt
  1. Repeat aloud from memory
    "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"
     
  2. Speak eloquently with elocution
    - declaim
     
  3. Render verbally
    "recite a poem";
    - retell
     
  4. Narrate or give a detailed account of
    "recite what happened";
    - tell, narrate, recount, retail[2]
     
  5. Specify individually
    "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug";
    - enumerate, itemize, itemise [Brit]

Derived forms: recited, reciting, recites

Type of: do, echo, execute, identify, inform, name, perform, recreate, re-create, repeat

Encyclopedia: Recite