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