0 to describe how something happened, or to tell a story: --
[ + question word ] He was fond of recounting how he had played professional football when he was 19.
He recounted his adventures since he had left home.
1 to count something again --
2 another count, especially of the number of votes in an election: --
to demand a recount
3 to describe the particular events of an experience, or to tell a story: --
4 a second or another count, esp. of the number of votes in an election: --
Authors took little interest in recounting these outbursts of frustration and despair.
Moors traces the impact of these events on gender and recounts many women's individual stories, giving general conclusions.
It is a fairly brief and thoroughly straightforward book that simply recounts the arguments of one author after another.
Writers recounted stories and traditions circulating at the time of their visits, all obtained from victors, ruling classes and traders.
Younger women did not follow traditional practices, but recounted advice from older female relatives.
Throughout this entire narrative there is an irresolvable undecidability, as it becomes impossible to tell fact from fiction, recounting from inventing.
All the par ticipants were asked to recount an incident that had an impact on their lives.
Remarks of this sort also appear in advice books and books that recount histories of support groups.
