retold Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb render verbally, "recite a poem"
    recite; retell.
    • retell a story
  2. verb make into fiction
    retell; fictionalize; fictionalise.
    • The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel
  3. verb to say, state, or perform again
    reiterate; repeat; ingeminate; retell; restate; iterate.
    • She kept reiterating her request

WordNet


Re*told"
Definitions
  1. imp. & p. p. of Retell.

Webster 1913