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retoning

retoning is the present participle and gerund of retone.

Meaning of retone

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

Questions about retoning

What is retoning the present participle and gerund of?
Retoning is the present participle and gerund of retone.

Words near retoning in the dictionary

  1. retokenizing
  2. retold
  3. retone
  4. retoned
  5. retones
  6. retoning
  7. retook
  8. retool
  9. retoolable
  10. retooled
  11. retooler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retoning (page history and authors); retone (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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