'Recount' definitions:
Definition of 'recount'
(from WordNet)
noun
An additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
verb
Narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite]
verb
Count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"
Definition of 'Recount'
From: GCIDE
- Recount \Re*count"\, n. A counting again, as of votes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recount'
From: GCIDE
- Recount \Re*count"\ (r[-e]*kount"), v. t. [F. raconter to relate, to recount; pref. re- again + ? (L. ad.) + conter to relate. See Count, v.] To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- To all his angels, who, with true applause, Recount his praises. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recount'
From: GCIDE
- Recount \Re*count"\ (r[=e]*kount"), v. t. [Pref. re- + count.] To count or reckon again. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'recount'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- accounts,
- add up,
- allegorize,
- battologize,
- body count,
- capitulation,
- cast up,
- census,
- cipher up,
- communicate,
- count,
- count up,
- describe,
- detail,
- election returns,
- enumerate,
- fable,
- fabulize,
- fictionalize,
- figure up,
- fill,
- foot up,
- give an encore,
- go over,
- go through,
- head count,
- impart,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iterate,
- landslide,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- narrate,
- nose count,
- novelize,
- official count,
- pad,
- particularize,
- poll,
- practice,
- reaffirm,
- reassert,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recapitulation,
- recite,
- reckon up,
- reckoning,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- repertory,
- report,
- reprint,
- restate,
- resume,
- retail,
- retell,
- returns,
- review,
- reword,
- romance,
- run over,
- say over,
- say over again,
- score up,
- specify,
- state,
- statement,
- storify,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summary,
- summate,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- tally up,
- tautologize,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- tidal wave,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- unfold,
- unfold a tale