reprise

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rəˈpriz/

Noun

Wikipedia reprise (plural reprises)

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.

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5. (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.

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6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Translations

repetition — see repetition

(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme

• French: reprise (fr) f
• Italian: ripresa (it) f

• Russian: реприза (ru) (repríza) f

(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position

Verb

reprise (third-person singular simple present reprises, present participle reprising, simple past and past participle reprised)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:

     How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.

2. To repeat or resume an action
3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Translations

To repeat or resume an action

• Russian: повторять (ru) (povtorjatʹ)

See also

• reprisal

Anagrams

• perries
• respire

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. time, instance

   à plusieurs reprises

   many times

   champion à six reprises

   six-time champion

2. (sports) second-half kick-off
3. (music) reprise
4. (music) cover, cover version
5. (television) repeat, rerun

Synonyms

• (instance): fois

Verb

reprise f

1. feminine past participle of reprendre

Anagrams

• pierres, prières, respire, respiré

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /reˈprizi/

Noun

reprise f (plural reprises)

1. rerun or re-airing of a TV program

Verb

reprise

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reprisar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of reprisar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reprisar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reprisar