repeat

v.

1. To do again

   redo, remake, do over, play over, rehash, reciprocate, return, rework, reform, refashion, recast, duplicate, reduplicate, reproduce, replicate, renew, reconstruct, reerect, revert, hold over, go over again and again.

2. To happen again

   reoccur, recur, revolve, reappear, occur again, come again, return, crop up again; see also happen 2.

3. To say again

   reiterate, iterate, restate, recapitulate, reissue, republish, reutter, echo, recite, reecho, parrot, regurgitate, rehearse, retell, rehash, go over, play back, read back, quote, copy, imitate, perseverate, harp on, drum into*, come again*, sing the same old song*; see also paraphrase.

repeat is the common, general word meaning to say, do, make, present, etc. over again will you repeat that question, please?; reiterate and the less common iterate both imply repeating either once or several times, but reiterate more strongly suggests insistent repetition over and over again he kept reiterating his innocence; recapitulate suggests a concise repetition of the main points in a discourse in summarizing to recapitulate last week's lecture