RETIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retie mean? 

• RETIE (verb)
  The verb RETIE has 1 sense:

1. tie again or anew

  Familiarity information: RETIE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETIE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they retie    ... he / she / it reties   
Past simple: retied   
Past participle: retied   
-ing form: retying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tie again or anew

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

retie the string and make it strong enough now

Hypernyms (to "retie" is one way to...):

bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

However, chemotherapeutic drugs or environmental chemicals sometimes block the protein’s DNA-retying ability, so that TOP2 remains stuck on DNA.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)