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Verb: retell (retold)  ree'tel
  1. To say, state, or perform again
    "She kept retelling her request";
    - repeat, reiterate, ingeminate [archaic], iterate, restate
     
  2. Render verbally
    "retell a story";
    - recite
     
  3. Make into fiction
    "The writer retold the lives of his parents in his latest novel";
    - fictionalize, fictionalise [Brit]

Derived forms: retells, retelling, retold

Type of: recreate, re-create, tell

Encyclopedia: Retell, Arthur