Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To say or do again or repeatedly. synonym: repeat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To repeat again and again; do or say (especially say) repeatedly: as, to reiterate an explanation.
  • To walk over again; go along repeatedly.
  • Synonyms See recapitulate.
  • Reiterated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.
  • adjective rare Reiterated; repeated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive to say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
  • verb transitive to say or do (something) repeatedly
  • adjective Reiterated; repeated.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb to say, state, or perform again

Etymologies

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re- +‎ iterate

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  • re iterate

    March 1, 2010

  • reit e rate

    March 1, 2010

  • Unlikely. 'Iterate' is only rarely used to mean "reiterate" (and many of the Google hits for "iterated that" are from Indian sites). In normal use 'iterate' and 'reiterate' have completely different meanings.

    July 20, 2010

  • Perhaps it's just dundant.

    July 20, 2010