Recount

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: re=count

CIDE DICTIONARY

Recount, v. t. [Pref. re- + count.].

 To count or reckon again.  [1913 Webster]

Recount, n. 

 A counting again, as of votes.  [1913 Webster]

Recount, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Recount, v.tr.
1 narrate.
2 tell in detail.

Etymology

ONF & AF reconter (as RE-, COUNT(1))

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Recount

n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

THESAURUS

Recount

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Recount

Description

VB describe, set forth, draw a picture, picture, portray, characterize, particularize, narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again, unfold a tale, tell, give an account of, render an account of, report, make a report, draw up a statement, detail, enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars, descend to details, itemize.