retying
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Verb[edit]
retying
- present participle and gerund of retie
Noun[edit]
retying (plural retyings)
- 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.
- March 31, 1885, Mark Twain, speech at the Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton