recite

recite is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive 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. transitive 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. transitive verb. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
4. transitive verb. To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
5. intransitive verb. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
6. noun. A recital.
7. verb. repeat aloud from memory

   "she recited a poem"

   "The pupil recited his lesson for the day"

8. verb. specify individually

   "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"

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

   Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, itemize

9. verb. narrate or give a detailed account of

   "Tell what happened"

   "The father told a story to his child"

   Synonyms: narrate, recount, tell

10. verb. recite in elocution

    Synonyms: declaim

11. verb. render verbally, "recite a poem"

    "retell a story"

    Synonyms: retell

Synonyms

enumerate, itemise, itemize, narrate, recount, tell, declaim, retell

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in recite:

cerite, certie, tierce

Common word forms

recited, reciter, recites, reciting, recitement

Words from these letters

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