{
    "term": "repeat",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "repeat",
            "heSheIt": "repeats"
        },
        "pastSimple": "repeated",
        "pastParticiple": "repeated",
        "ingForm": "repeating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to say or write something again or more than once",
            "sensetop": "repeat somethingrepeat yourselfrepeat that…repeat + speech",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to repeat a question/a claim/an assertion/a warning",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to repeat a phrase/mantra"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **repeated the word** several times."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry—could you repeat that?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **kept repeating** his name softly over and over again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The opposition have been repeating their calls for the president's resignation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you prepared to repeat these allegations in court?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I mentioned it before, but it bears *(= is worth)* repeating."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do say if I'm repeating myself *(= if I have already said this)*.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's fond of repeating that the company's success is all down to him.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Are you really sure?’ she repeated.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Oh,’ she repeated lamely."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That message was still being repeated ad nauseam on the radio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She kept repeating it over and over again like a robot."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"],
                "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"],
                "preposition": ["after", "to"],
                "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/​something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to emphasize something that you have already said",
            "sensetop": "repeat something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The claims are, I repeat, totally unfounded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nor, to repeat, can these changes be avoided."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am not, repeat not, travelling in the same car as him!",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to say something that somebody else has said, especially in order to learn it",
            "sensetop": "repeat somethingrepeat something after somebodyrepeat what…repeat + speech",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The teacher's statement is then repeated by the students.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Listen and repeat each sentence after me.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something after somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you repeat what I've just said word for word?",
                    "contextForm": "repeat what…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘We were both asleep and didn’t hear anything,’ she repeated.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "students repeating drills parrot-fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The students repeated each sentence after their teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He repeated what she had said word for word."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"],
                "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"],
                "preposition": ["after", "to"],
                "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/​something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to tell somebody something that you have heard or been told by somebody else",
            "sensetop": "repeat something to somebodyrepeat something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I don't want you to repeat a word of this to anyone.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The rumour has been widely repeated in the press.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why did you go and repeat what I said to Ian?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You must not repeat this to anyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She faithfully repeated everything he had told her."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"],
                "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"],
                "preposition": ["after", "to"],
                "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/​something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to do or produce something again or more than once",
            "sensetop": "repeat something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **repeat a mistake/process**",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to repeat an experiment/exercise"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Organizers are hoping to repeat the success of last year's event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He won his first Monaco Grand Prix in 1994 and repeated the feat in 1995, 1997 and 1999."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The treatment should be repeated every two to three hours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are hoping to repeat last year's victory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These offers are unlikely to be repeated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The programmes will be repeated next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to repeat a class/year/grade *(= in a school, to take a class/year/grade again)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lift and lower the right leg 20 times. Repeat with the left leg."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try not to repeat your mistakes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They constantly repeat the same mistakes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no point in merely repeating what we've done before."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It may be necessary to repeat the dose several times to effect a cure."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"],
                "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"],
                "preposition": ["after", "to"],
                "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/​something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to happen more than once in the same way",
            "sensetop": "repeat something/itself",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "History has a strange way of repeating itself.",
                    "contextForm": "repeat something/itself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This phrase is repeated at intervals throughout the song."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a repeating pattern/design"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A single note repeated over and over again, throbbing in my head."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["just", "merely", "simply"],
                "verb + repeat": ["can only", "be necessary to", "need to"],
                "preposition": ["after", "to"],
                "phrases": ["keep repeating somebody/​something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "if food repeats, you can taste it for some time after you have eaten it",
            "sensetop": "repeat (on somebody)",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you find that onions repeat on you?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːt/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeat__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːts/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeats__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeating__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːt/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeat__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːts/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeats__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪd/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈpiːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/repeat/repeating__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, from re- ‘back’ + petere ‘seek’."
}