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redetaining

redetaining is the present participle and gerund of redetain.

Meaning of redetain

Verb

redetain (third-person singular simple present redetains, present participle redetaining, simple past and past participle redetained)

  1. (transitive) To detain again.
    • He came by boat to Australia, and lived in the community for three years before being redetained by immigration authorities.2015 August 12, Ben Doherty, “Asylum seeker forcibly returned to Afghanistan after appeals exhausted”, in The Guardian

Questions about redetaining

What is redetaining the present participle and gerund of?
Redetaining is the present participle and gerund of redetain.

Words near redetaining in the dictionary

  1. redetailed
  2. redetailing
  3. redetails
  4. redetain
  5. redetained
  6. redetaining
  7. redetains
  8. redetect
  9. redetectable
  10. redetected
  11. redetecting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redetaining (page history and authors); redetain (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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