retying

• Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

retying

1. present participle and gerund of retie

retying (plural retyings)

1. 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.

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