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retallying

retallying is the present participle and gerund of retally.

Meaning of retally

Verb

retally (third-person singular simple present retallies, present participle retallying, simple past and past participle retallied)

  1. (transitive) To tally again; to recount.
    • In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by The New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied.2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times

Questions about retallying

What is retallying the present participle and gerund of?
Retallying is the present participle and gerund of retally.

Words near retallying in the dictionary

  1. retalking
  2. retalks
  3. retallied
  4. retallies
  5. retally
  6. retallying
  7. retama
  8. retamas
  9. retame
  10. retamed
  11. retames

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