Retold vs Recount - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between retold and recount

is that retold is past tense of retell while recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.

retelling, narration, rendering.

(head)

(retell)

To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.

From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.

(en noun)

Retelling, narration, rendering

(en verb)

To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.

The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.

To rehearse; to enumerate.

to recount one's blessings

(en noun)

A counting again, as of votes.

(en verb)

To count or reckon again.