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retooled

retooled is the simple past and past participle of retool.

Meaning of retool

Verb

retool (third-person singular simple present retools, present participle retooling, simple past and past participle retooled)

  1. (transitive) To adjust; to optimize; to rebuild.
    • He decided it was time to retool last year's marketing brochure.

Questions about retooled

What is retooled the simple past and past participle of?
Retooled is the simple past and past participle of retool.

Words near retooled in the dictionary

  1. retones
  2. retoning
  3. retook
  4. retool
  5. retoolable
  6. retooled
  7. retooler
  8. retoolers
  9. retooling
  10. retoolings
  11. retools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retooled (page history and authors); retool (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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