retrying
retrying is the present participle and gerund of retry.
Meaning of retry
Verb
retry (third-person singular simple present retries, present participle retrying, simple past and past participle retried)
- To try or attempt again.
- to retry connecting to the Internet after an error
- To try judicially a second time.
- to retry a case
Noun
retrying (plural retryings)
- The act of something being retried.
- Only elite litigants could likely afford the time that multiple retryings required.2009, Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens, page 145
Forms of retrying
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Words that rhyme with retrying
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about retrying
- What does retrying mean?
- Retrying means the act of something being retried.
- What is retrying the present participle and gerund of?
- Retrying is the present participle and gerund of retry.
- What part of speech is retrying?
- Retrying is a noun.
- What is the plural of retrying?
- The plural of retrying is retryings.
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