Recounting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act in which something is recounted

    "Months after his first mention of the book he was still obsessing, daily it seemed, about minutiae of the Chambers-Alger Hiss espionage confrontation, while his sidekicks histrionically greeted his recountings with a chorus of groans and protests of the “not-again” variety."

  2. 2
    an act of narration wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of recount form-of, gerund, participle, present

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recountalrelationaccountaccountsbody countcapitulation

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"Below the starry sky, Tom and Mary forgot about time, recounting their dreams to each other."

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