Reprise

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/

Noun

1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
5. (legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Full definition of reprise

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take (something) up or on again.
• Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xi:How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine,
  Whom still he marked freshly to arize
  From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
2. To repeat or resume an action
3. (obsolete) To recompense; to pay.

Anagrams

• perries
• respire