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narrate

/ˈnæɹeɪt/ verb B1
  1. To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. (transitive) · narrate a story· narrate a tale
  2. To give an account. · narrate the meeting

He/she/it narrates · Past narrated · Past participle narrated · -ing form narrating

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Verb forms

Base form
narrate
He/she/it
narrates
Past
narrated
Past participle
narrated
-ing form
narrating

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There was yet another individual whose residence under that roof was, it is true, only an intermittent one, but whose presence at the time of the strange happenings which will now be narrated brought his name prominently before the public.
The Valley of Fear, p. 24 · C1
In the event of your acceding to my request it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 57 · B2
Beauchamp related to the young man all the facts we have just narrated; his story, however, had over ours all the advantage of the animation of living things over the coldness of dead things.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 869 · C1

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