What is another word for recounted?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪkˈa͡ʊntɪd] (IPA)

Recounted, which means to tell or describe a story or event, has several synonyms that can be used to add variety to your writing. One synonym is narrated, which can be used when someone tells a detailed or engaging story. Another synonym is related, which can be utilized to describe how something is connected or relevant to one another. Describing an event in detail can be achieved with the synonym described. If someone repeats or retells an event, the word reiterated can be utilized. Finally, recounted can also be replaced with the word recited, which can be used when someone tells a story or poem from memory.

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Usage examples for Recounted

It is recounted that one of these dogs preserved twenty-two lives.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
In order to explain to her his state of mind, Ralph recounted his experience with the photograph, the letter, and the flower picked at Kew.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
And Powhatan's favorite daughter or not, Pocahontas should be kept waiting outside her father's lodge until he had related his important business and had recounted all the glorious deeds done by his Pamunkeys.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson

Famous quotes with Recounted

  • My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
    Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
    Josh McDowell
  • How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person
    La Rochefoucauld
  • I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
    Glen Cook
  • One of the most suggestive episodes recounted in the Bible is that of a prophet's attempt — the only attempt of the kind on the record, I believe — to count up the Remnant.The Lord replied that he need not worry about that, for even without him the True Faith could probably manage to squeeze along somehow if it had to; "and as for your figures on the Remnant," He said, "I don't mind telling you that there are seven thousand of them back there in Israel whom it seems you have not heard of, but you may take My word for it that there they are."
    Albert Jay Nock

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