recite

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.

2. 2transitive verb

   To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.

3. 3transitive verb

   To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

4. 4transitive verb

   To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

6. 6noun

   A recital.

7. 7verb

   repeat aloud from memory

   "she recited a poem"

   "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"

8. 8verb

   specify individually

   "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"

   "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug"

   Synonyms

   enumerateitemiseitemize
9. 9verb

   narrate or give a detailed account of

   "Tell what happened"

   "The father told a story to his child"

   Synonyms

   narraterecounttell
10. 10verb

    recite in elocution

    Synonyms

    declaim
11. 11verb

    render verbally, "recite a poem"

    "retell a story"

    Synonyms

    retell