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recount verb [ rɪˈkaʊnt ]

• tell someone about something; give an account of an event or experience.
• "I recounted the tale to Steve"
Similar: tell, relate, narrate, give an account of, describe, portray, depict, paint, unfold, set forth, present, report, outline, delineate, retail, recite, repeat, rehearse, relay, convey, communicate, impart, detail, enumerate, list, specify, itemize, cite, particularize, catalogue,

recount noun

• an act or instance of giving an account of an event or experience.
Origin: late Middle English: from Old Northern French reconter ‘tell again’, based on Old French counter (see count1).

recount verb

• count again.
• "the children arrange and rearrange the objects in a set and recount them each time"

recount noun

• an act of counting something again, especially votes in an election.


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