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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
repeated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frequent/constant/repeated references
▪ Medieval literature contains frequent references to insanity.
repeated absences (=happening again and again)
▪ Repeated absences from school can lead to children falling behind.
repeated accusations
▪ Repeated accusations of neglect were made against the authorities.
repeated requests
▪ The bank would not reveal its figures, despite repeated requests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ The growth of competition put paid to repeated attempts by the railways and the political authorities to establish a financially viable railway.
▪ Despite repeated attempts by central Television to speak to Sarejevo Child Lifeline, no one was available for comment.
▪ Nor did it ever completely disappear, despite repeated attempts to extirpate it.
▪ Bereavement counselling - where there is no hope of conception or repeated attempts at treatment have not resulted in conception.
exposure
▪ Make this point firmly, because the idea of anxiety-reduction with repeated exposure is one of the fundamental principles of the course.
▪ Like the Zionist experience too, this yearning is reinforced by repeated exposure to legal and physical vulnerability.
▪ Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
▪ The Vascars have, of course, become headless through repeated exposure to Tramen-exhalation.
request
▪ And despite repeated requests, there are occasions when Groups relate directly to Area Secretaries instead of Coordinators, as previously agreed.
▪ Despite repeated requests, the magistrates who gave Hagans bail refused to be interviewed.
▪ Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks.
▪ The governing body had refused to consider holding an open meeting, despite repeated requests from parents and some governors.
use
▪ Ignore the fact that a nut may be weakened by repeated use as hammer.
▪ Physiological addiction may occur after repeated use of analgesics for relief from chronic pain.
▪ This is a contemporary, well validated, 22 item self report scale developed for repeated use by patients with cancer.
▪ Because of the repeated use of the name Frederick, it is easiest to identify Frederick Barbarossa by his nickname.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Repeated attempts to fix the satellite have failed.
▪ Massieu remains a free man, despite repeated attempts to arrest him on murder and drug charges.
▪ Motorists used the roads despite repeated warnings of snow.
▪ The torture involved repeated beatings and electric shock treatment.
▪ There have been repeated requests for the United Nations to send peace-keeping forces to the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Coventry-born Painter, 21, sensed trouble soon after the start and made repeated efforts to keep the headgear in place.
▪ Don't be tentative or give repeated tugs which achieve nothing.
▪ He marked young leaves as they began to expand and then followed their fate by repeated observation.
▪ Make this point firmly, because the idea of anxiety-reduction with repeated exposure is one of the fundamental principles of the course.
▪ This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.
▪ With anti-lock as standard, they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repeated

Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]

  1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. ``I will repeat our former communication.''
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.
    --Milton.

  2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.]
    --Waller.

  3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

    To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.

    To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

    Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
repeated

"frequent," 1610s, past participle adjective from repeat (v.). Related: Repeatedly.

Wiktionary
repeated
  1. 1 Having been say or done again. 2 sequential. v

  2. (en-past of: repeat)

WordNet
repeated

adj. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial, recurrent]

Usage examples of "repeated".

Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

One of the best agents employed to make a decided impression upon the vascular system, subdue inflammation, and modify its action, is the fluid extract of veratrum viride, administered in full doses, and repeated until the system shows its effects in a decided manner.

The persecution of the Imperial family, to which Theodosius himself had been indebted for his fortune, was now aggravated by recent and repeated injuries.

Clucking and grunting all the while, they repeated the performance over and over while Alec and Beka watched in silent delight.

Hebrew alphabet, became the repeated sh, or shin, the next-to-last letter, in sheshach.

From this pattern of questions, patiently repeated, the shape of Amado Ortega and his way of life began to emerge.

The bishop without answering me referred me to his chancellor, to whom I repeated all I had said to the bishop, but with words calculated to irritate rather than to soften, and certainly not likely to obtain the release of the captain.

An apocryphal story repeated long after has Talleyrand at the Champ de Mars imploring Lafayette, who joined him at the altar, not to make him laugh.

Kleist repeated what he had been instructed to tell, stressing that Hitler had set a date for aggression against the Czechs and that the generals, most of whom opposed him, would act, but that further British appeasement of Hitler would cut the ground from under their feet.

She had come to Spain on a whim not knowing really where Spain was, with a bloke of course Aquarians had a great need to give and receive love, repeated studies had proved it.

Court repeated this assertion, in connection with the denial to a defendant accused of a murder of the same opportunity during the critical period between his arraignment and the impaneling of the jury.

He was s babbler, who understood a story badly, and repeated it worse.

Accordingly, in the afternoon a second meeting was held, at which the Russians repeated what Stalin had said to us, to the effect that twenty-five divisions would be assigned to the defence of the Caucasus mountain line and the passages at either end, and that they believed they could hold both Batum and Baku and the Caucasus range until the winter snows greatly improved their position.