The verb is pronounced /ri:pleɪ/. The noun is pronounced /ri:pleɪ/.
( replayed)
1.
If a match between two sports teams is replayed , the two teams play it again, because neither team won the first time, or because the match was stopped because of bad weather. ( mainly BRIT )
Drawn matches were replayed three or four days later.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
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You can refer to a match that is replayed as a replay .
If there has to be a replay we are confident of victory.
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2.
If you replay something that you have recorded on film or tape, you play it again in order to watch it or listen to it.
He stopped the machine and replayed the message.
VERB : V n
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Replay is also a noun.
I watched a slow-motion videotape replay of his fall.
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3.
If you replay an event in your mind, you think about it again and again.
She spends her nights lying in bed, replaying the fire in her mind.
VERB : V n
4.
see also action replay , instant replay