Repeal vs Repeat - What's the difference?
repeal | repeat |
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
(intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
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(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
(legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
An iteration; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
As verbs the difference between repeal and repeat
is that repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul while repeat is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).As nouns the difference between repeal and repeat
is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.repeal
English
Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.
Synonyms
* annul, cancel, invalidate, revoke, vetoAnagrams
*repeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Waller)
Noun
(en noun)- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.