to resay
- verb
- /ˌriːˈseɪ/
:
repetir
- She decided to resay her point during the meeting to ensure everyone understood.
Examples
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In her speech, she had to resay the instructions to make them simpler for the audience.
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After listening to feedback, he chose to resay his original argument more clearly.
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It is a clock whose pendulum says and resays without cease only two words in the silence of tombs: Forever, never!
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To do or say something again
100
5.9
To say something again to make it clear
89
1.6
Repeat what you just said so others can hear or understand
64
4.1
To say the same thing using different words to make it clearer
42
3.7
To say something again in different words to make it clearer
23
3.4
To say something again in a different, clearer way
4
3.4
Change the words of a sentence to say the same thing more clearly
1
4.4
Say the same thing in a different way
1
6.7
To say something again in a clearer way
To say something again to show it is important
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word resay is made of re-, which means 'again', and say, which means 'to speak', just like in repeat or replay. So resay means to 'say' something 'again', often using different words to make it clearer.