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retangle

retangle verb: to tangle again.

Verb

retangle (third-person singular simple present retangles, present participle retangling, simple past and past participle retangled)

  1. To tangle again.
    • In the full picture of American politics as an ongoing process, its two styles tangle and retangle nearly constantly, often quietly and merely misleadingly, but sometimes fiercely, with results that can be exciting, embarrassing, bizarre, tragic, or all these in combination.1998, H. Roelofs, The Poverty of American Politics, page 86
    • The aligned molecules try to retangle themselves and if this is hindered additional normal stresses arise.2019, Joseph H. Spurk, Nuri Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, page 89

Forms of retangle

third-person singular presentretangles
present participleretangling
past participleretangled
pastretangled

Origin of retangle

From re- + tangle.

Questions about retangle

What does retangle mean?
Retangle means to tangle again.
What part of speech is retangle?
Retangle is a verb.
What is the past tense of retangle?
The past tense of retangle is retangled.

Words near retangle in the dictionary

  1. retames
  2. retaming
  3. retan
  4. Retana
  5. Retanas
  6. retangle
  7. retangled
  8. retangles
  9. retangling
  10. retannage
  11. retanned

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