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retone

retone verb: to tone again.

Verb

retone (third-person singular simple present retones, present participle retoning, simple past and past participle retoned)

  1. To tone again.
    • It made him work harder as he traversed the low parallel bars to practice his walking. The situps were coming well, as were the pushups to retone his almost atrophied arm muscles.1981, Jerry Ahern, The Opium Hunter

Forms of retone

third-person singular presentretones
present participleretoning
past participleretoned
pastretoned

Origin of retone

From re- + tone.

Questions about retone

What does retone mean?
Retone means to tone again.
What part of speech is retone?
Retone is a verb.
What is the past tense of retone?
The past tense of retone is retoned.

Words near retone in the dictionary

  1. retokenize
  2. retokenized
  3. retokenizes
  4. retokenizing
  5. retold
  6. retone
  7. retoned
  8. retones
  9. retoning
  10. retook
  11. retool

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