Restate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To express the same idea using different words or to repeat a statement in another way
2. To convey a thought once more, altering the wording for clarity or emphasis
3. To put information into new words to clarify or emphasize the original message

Etymology: "Restate" is a plain English compound: the prefix "re-", meaning "again" or "back," attached to "state," which goes back through Middle English "state" and Old French "estat" to Latin "status," a standing or condition. Its root sense is therefore to put something into a fixed position once more, the way a thing is set upright again. The prefix does the work here. "Re-" was productive in English from the medieval period onward, letting speakers add the idea of repetition to almost any verb, which is why "restate" needs no special invention: it simply means to state again. The emphasis-and-clarification sense in the definition grows naturally from that repetition, since saying something a second time, in different words, tends to make it clearer.

Synonyms: rephrase, reword, repeat

Antonyms: omit, ignore