retangle
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[edit]Verb
[edit]retangle (third-person singular simple present retangles, present participle retangling, simple past and past participle retangled)
- To tangle again.
- 1998, H. Roelofs, The Poverty of American Politics, page 86:
- In the full picture of American politics as an ongoing process, its two styles tangle and retangle nearly constantly, often quietly and merely misleadingly, but sometimes fiercely, with results that can be exciting, embarrassing, bizarre, tragic, or all these in combination.
- 2019, Joseph H. Spurk, Nuri Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, page 89:
- The aligned molecules try to retangle themselves and if this is hindered additional normal stresses arise.
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190:
- We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.