Dictionary Entry
restate
Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ree-STEYT/To state something again, often in a different way, to make it clearer or to emphasize it.
In a Sentence
“The teacher asked the student to restate the main idea of the paragraph in their own words.”
Origin
From re- (again) + state (to express).
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