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retying

retying is the present participle and gerund of retie.

Meaning of retie

Verb

retie (third-person singular simple present reties, present participle retying, simple past and past participle retied)

  1. To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.
    • She stopped walking for a moment to retie her shoe.

Noun

retying (plural retyings)

  1. The act of tying something again.
    • March 31, 1885, Mark Twain, speech at the Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton
      I found that a new oath holds pretty well; but that when it is become old and frayed out and damaged by a dozen annual retyings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Forms of retying

pluralretyings

Words that rhyme with retying

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Questions about retying

What does retying mean?
Retying means the act of tying something again.
What is retying the present participle and gerund of?
Retying is the present participle and gerund of retie.
What part of speech is retying?
Retying is a noun.
What is the plural of retying?
The plural of retying is retyings.

Words near retying in the dictionary

  1. retwining
  2. retwist
  3. retwisted
  4. retwisting
  5. retwists
  6. retying
  7. retyings
  8. retype
  9. retyped
  10. retypes
  11. retypification

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retying (page history and authors); retie (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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