RECOUNT Definition & Meaning

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recount

[ ri-kount ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
Synonyms:
to narrate in order.
to tell one by one; enumerate.

recount

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verb

tr to tell the story or details of; narrate

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Derived Forms

��ˈ��ǳܲԳٲ��, noun

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of recount¹

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English recounten, from Middle French reconter, equivalent to re- + conter “to tell, count.” See re-, count ¹

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of recount¹

C15: from Old French reconter , from re- + conter to tell, relate; see count ¹

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Synonym Study

See relate.

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Tossing out these ballots, he argues, would overturn his defeat, which has been confirmed by two recounts.

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Sinha merges the depressing and inspiring in her recounting of Reconstruction, when the U.S. emerged from a state of war as a flawed but budding multiracial democracy.

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And when he did contract COVID, he recounted his agonizing recovery.

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“I probably wouldn’t have made it through the night if I didn’t have it,” May recalled doctors telling him of the surgery, while recounting the ordeal for the first time this spring.

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"We filled up a little bit the potholes," he recounts.

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