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re-searching

re-searching is the present participle and gerund of re-search.

Meaning of re-search

Verb

re-search (third-person singular simple present re-searches, present participle re-searching, simple past and past participle re-searched)

  1. (transitive) To search again; to re-examine.
    • The river has been searched and re-searched.

Questions about re-searching

What is re-searching the present participle and gerund of?
Re-searching is the present participle and gerund of re-search.

Words near re-searching in the dictionary

  1. re-saves
  2. re-saving
  3. re-search
  4. re-searched
  5. re-searches
  6. re-searching
  7. re-sentence
  8. re-sentenced
  9. re-sentences
  10. re-sentencing
  11. re-serve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-searching (page history and authors); re-search (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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