to reprise
- verb
- /rɪˈpriːz/
- Patti Yasutake reprises her role as Nurse Alyssa Ogawa from Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek Generations.
- reprised her role
Would you be interested in reprising the role?
- Would you be interested in reprising the role?
- Here is the revisited, reprised and reassembled, stripped down title track for Matt Carney's City of Black and White.
- And he plays that role well because he reprised something like that in that long running series, a Northern Exposure.
- The guy who whose role he's reprising the latest iteration of Dune.
Examples
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Next week, the band will reprise their popular song at the concert.
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Oh, so you want me to reprise my role as Terry McCann?
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Would you be interested in reprising the role?
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I will have a larger role this time and will not be reprising my previous role.
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Anthony Perkins was approached to reprise his role, but he turned it down.
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And this Christmas night, I'm reprising my role as Scrooge in the Lincoln Wood Theater Group's production of A Christmas Carol.
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Paul Rudd was Westley, and Fred Savage reprised his role as the grandson.
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In the new theater production, she will reprise her role as the lead character.
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The actor plans to reprise his iconic role in the sequel to the hit film.
Synonyms
To do or say something again
To put on a play or show again for an audience
To repeat the main theme near the end of a piece
To repeat an earlier theme in music or writing
How Often
Surface Forms
Etymology
Reprise comes from old French words that mean 'take again': re- 'again' and prise 'take', like the prise you see in surprise. So to reprise something is to 'take it again', which fits when performers do a song, role, or scene a second time.