Devolve and Repeat

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

noun

• An event that repeats.
  • usage: "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
  • synonyms: repetition

verb

• To say, state, or perform again.
  • usage: "She kept reiterating her request"
  • synonyms: reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
• Make or do or perform again.
  • usage: "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
  • synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, double, replicate
• Happen or occur again.
  • usage: "This is a recurring story"
  • synonyms: recur
• To say again or imitate.
  • usage: "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"
  • synonyms: echo
• Do over.
  • usage: "They would like to take it over again"
  • synonyms: take over
• Repeat an earlier theme of a composition.
  • synonyms: reprise, reprize, recapitulate

• (n.) A mark or series of dots, placed before and after or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
• (v.t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
• (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
• (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
• (v.t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order or a poem.
• (v.t.) To repay or refund (an excess received).