Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of retie
nounretying (countable and uncountable, plural retyings)
plural retyings
- countableuncountableThe 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.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with retying
tryingbuyingflyingapplyingdyinglyingcryingdryingdenyingspyingtyingcomplyingimplyingfryingdyeingdefyingvyingundyingpryingsighingplyingscryingdecryingretrying
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APA
retying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retying
MLA
“retying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retying. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “retying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retying.
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