recounts

VERB

tell a story

Synonyms

STRONGEST

convey depict describe detail narrate portray recap recite rehash relate repeat tell

STRONG

delineate echo enumerate itemize picture recapitulate rehearse report state track unload verbalize

WEAK

break a story give an account of play back run by again run down run through say again

Antonyms

STRONGEST

conceal confuse hide misrepresent mix up suppress withhold

WEAK

repress

Example Sentences

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"But then, seeing me like that, two workers accompanied me to the body. They helped me find him so I wouldn't suffer as much," she recounts.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

The book recounts Vance's conversion to Catholicism, a long road from the vaguely defined Christianity of his beloved, gunpacking grandmother who cared for him for most of his childhood.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

One Moneyist reader recounts a similar dilemma from her own life.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026

Mr. Strausbaugh recounts his subject’s hijinks gleefully, firmly embedding Duchamp at the center of New York’s 20th-century art scene.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Fm the one she recounts her growing list of ailments to.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides