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retousling

retousling is the present participle and gerund of retousle.

Meaning of retousle

Verb

retousle (third-person singular simple present retousles, present participle retousling, simple past and past participle retousled)

  1. (transitive) To tousle again.
    • As always, Mr. McCartney was boyish onstage, making faces and tousling and retousling his hair.2009 July 19, Jon Pareles, “For McCartney, a New Stage to Call His Own”, in New York Times

Questions about retousling

What is retousling the present participle and gerund of?
Retousling is the present participle and gerund of retousle.

Words near retousling in the dictionary

  1. retouring
  2. retours
  3. retousle
  4. retousled
  5. retousles
  6. retousling
  7. retox
  8. retoxed
  9. retoxes
  10. retoxification
  11. retoxified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retousling (page history and authors); retousle (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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