recount

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of RECOUNT

to give an oral or written account of in some detail <a novel that recounted an American soldier's adventures among the samurai warriors of 19th-century Japan>

Synonyms chart, chronicle, describe, narrate, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report

Related Words deliver, give, reel off, state, utter, voice; detail, enumerate, itemize, particularize; bare, disclose, divulge, expose, let on (about), reveal; delineate, depict, express, render, sketch

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