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refastening

refastening is the present participle and gerund of refasten.

Meaning of refasten

Verb

refasten (third-person singular simple present refastens, present participle refastening, simple past and past participle refastened)

  1. (transitive) To fasten again.
    • They had to refasten their safety belts before the driver would continue.

Questions about refastening

What is refastening the present participle and gerund of?
Refastening is the present participle and gerund of refasten.

Words near refastening in the dictionary

  1. refashionment
  2. refashionments
  3. refashions
  4. refasten
  5. refastened
  6. refastening
  7. refastens
  8. refatten
  9. refattened
  10. refattening
  11. refattens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refastening (page history and authors); refasten (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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