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retorn

retorn is the past participle of retear.

Meaning of retear

Verb

retear (third-person singular simple present retears, present participle retearing, simple past retore, past participle retorn)

  1. To tear again.
    • “We feel the risk is very limited that he will retear his labrum during that six- to seven-month period.”2009 March 9, Joe Lapointe, “Surgery Will Keep Alex Rodriguez Out Until May”, in New York Times

Questions about retorn

What is retorn the past participle of?
Retorn is the past participle of retear.

Words near retorn in the dictionary

  1. retopology
  2. retopped
  3. retopping
  4. retops
  5. retore
  6. retorn
  7. retornado
  8. retornados
  9. retorque
  10. retorqued
  11. retorquing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retorn (page history and authors); retear (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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