simple past tense and past participle of repeat
"She repeated the same mistake three times before finally getting it right."
In plain English: To repeat something means to do it again and again.
"She repeated the question because she did not understand the first answer."
Having been said or done again.
"She kept asking me to repeat the story until I had told it three times, but she never seemed satisfied."
In plain English: Repeated means something that happens again and again over time.
"The teacher asked us to read the repeated instructions again until everyone understood them."
Usage: Use repeated to describe an action that happens multiple times in succession, such as repeated attempts at fixing a problem. This adjective emphasizes the frequency of occurrence rather than simply stating something occurred more than once.
Derived from the Latin repeterere, this word originally meant to pursue again or repeat an action. It entered English via Old French, retaining its sense of doing something multiple times.