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Word entry · 7 letters

reprise

Best crossword clue

"Musical repeat"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/Part of speech verbSorted eeiprrsStarts with REnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1R2E3P4R5I6S7E

Definitions

  1. repeat an earlier theme of a composition

Word origin

From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.

Used in a sentence

  • Your care about your banks infers a fear Of threatening floods ,and inundations near; If so, a just reprise would only be Of what the land usurped upon the sea
  • 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.
  • The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.

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