ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Retying

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Retying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of retie.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of retie.

More Meanings

  1. The act of tying something again.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retightening, rejoining, retyring, reattachment, reanchoring, redetachment.

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