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summarise vs retell

retell vs summarise

summarise and retell both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
summarise No No Yes No
retell No No Yes No
As verbs, retell is a hypernym of summarise; that is, retell is a word with a broader meaning than summarise:
  • summarise: give a summary (of)
  • retell: to say, state, or perform again
Other hypernyms of summarise include ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate.
summarise (verb) retell (verb)
give a summary (of) to say, state, or perform again
be a summary of render verbally
make into fiction
Difference between summarise and retell

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