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Definition
to say or read something aloud — especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail — especially a list of things
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to say in detail — especially a list of things
- A finder of lost things, a girl who could count to fifty and dress herself and recite the alphabet, a girl who might struggle to speak but who could read Caroline's mood in an instant.p. 162.6
- And the doctor, dutiful, had recited the symptoms he'd memorized from the text: flaccid muscle tone, delayed growth and mental development, possible heart complications, early death.p. 16.9
- He had only wept once for June, standing with his mother on the hillside in the raw evening wind, holding the Bible in one hand as he recited the Lord's Prayer over the newly turned earth.p. 271.5
There are no more uses of "recite" in The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
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