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retyring

retyring is the present participle and gerund of retyre.

Meaning of retyre

Verb

retyre (third-person singular simple present retyres, present participle retyring, simple past and past participle retyred)

  1. (UK, transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tyres.
    • Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point.2013, Alan Davies, Walkden Yard and the Lancashire Central Railways Colliery Locomotives

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Noun

retyring (countable and uncountable, plural retyrings)

  1. (UK) The act of putting a new tyre on a vehicle wheel.
    • This is done when, after successive retyrings, they have been machined to less than the minimum repair size for tyres; […]1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159

Forms of retyring

pluralretyrings

Questions about retyring

What does retyring mean?
Retyring means the act of putting a new tyre on a vehicle wheel.
What is retyring the present participle and gerund of?
Retyring is the present participle and gerund of retyre.
What part of speech is retyring?
Retyring is a noun.
What is the plural of retyring?
The plural of retyring is retyrings.

Words near retyring in the dictionary

  1. retypifications
  2. retyping
  3. retyre
  4. retyred
  5. retyres
  6. retyring
  7. retyrings
  8. retyrosinate
  9. retyrosinated
  10. retyrosination
  11. Retz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retyring (page history and authors); retyre (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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