Recounted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To tell a story again, often with added details or reflections; to provide a version of events that may differ from previous accounts; to revisit and articulate previously expressed experiences in a fresh narrative style
2. Expressed or communicated a series of events or experiences in spoken or written form
3. Related an account of incidents or actions by describing them clearly and sequentially

Etymology: "Recounted" is a straightforward formation: the prefix "re-" ("again") attached to "count," and in this sense "count" means "to relate in detail, to tell over." That sense comes from Old French "conter," from Latin "computare," "to reckon, calculate," from "com-" (together) and "putare" (to think, reckon). The same Latin root gave English "compute" and "count" in its numerical sense. The verb "count" for telling a story is older than many readers expect. Its narrative sense, "to recite, relate," dates back to Middle English, and it stems from the medieval idea of going through a sequence item by item, as one would in a tally. When you recount something, you go back over it in order, the way you would reckon up a sum. The word is built on "count," which means "to tell," and in this context the prefix "re-" means "again." Its meaning in English stayed close to that original idea of reckoning and listing events one after another.

Synonyms: narrated, told, related

Antonyms: withheld, concealed