recount

Object

• tale: Myths do not necessarily recount tales of the origins of the cosmos, gods, rituals, or sacred events.
• anecdote: He was a life long friend to members of my family and recounted anecdotes from their times together.
• story: Now I have time I will recount the story of how he came to be back.
• story: A great storyteller and able to remember small details, he would recount stories from a lost age in which he grew up.
• incident: The Toronto Star runs a story which recounts the chicken incident from an eyewitness.
• episode: Finney recounts one episode; " When I came to a town to start revival, a lady contacted me.

Converse of object

• demand: Come to think of it, it can't be 25 years we demand a recount!
• conduct: Anne O'Herlihy said the Royal College of Psychiatrists is conducting a full recount which they expect to finalize in April.

Adjective modifier

• manual: There was a forty-five percent manual recount in the parliamentary elections, rather than the hundred percent currently being demanded by the opposition.
• full: Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election.

Modifying Another Word

• vividly: Lesley Blanch vividly recounts the epic story of their heroic and bloody struggle and the life of a man still legendary in the Caucasus.
• briefly: Chapters 10-11 only briefly recount all the other conquests.
• merely: No longer are long-past events merely recounted - weâre brought up-to-date, with things happening in the here and now.
• here: For reasons too long to recount here, this all had to be done twice.
• once: Dr. Max Bull, for many years Senior Tutor, once recounted an incident which perfectly illustrates Henry Hart ' s extraordinary memory.

Noun used with modifier

• ballot: So at what time the ballot recount might begin, it will be decided by the competent court handling the case.
• vote: We know that the people protesting in front of the Presidential Office are asking for a vote recount.

Used with why or when

what: Extraordinary series of letters to his family graphically recounts what life was like for the ordinary infantry soldier on active duty.

Preposition: in

detail: It might be tedious to recount in detail the scenes that followed.

Preposition: of

vote: Mexico full poll recount rejected Mexico's electoral body rejects a request for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election.