Meaning

2 senses

  1. (ambitransitive)To try or attempt again.

    to retry connecting to the Internet after an error

    erneut versuchen

  2. (transitive)To try judicially a second time.

    to retry a case

    to retry an accused person

More definitions
  • hear or try a court case anew

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He retried that experiment many times.

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  2. We should retry it.

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  3. Let's retry it.

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  4. You're all out of lives! Would you like to retry this level?

    deDu hast keine Leben mehr! Möchtest du dieses Level noch einmal versuchen? — Naina

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to try or attempt again:

Forms

retries, retrying, retried, retried
Base formretry · to retry
3rd person singularretries
Present participleretrying
Past simpleretried
Past participleretried

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyretry
he, she, itretries

Past simpleLesson

all personsretried

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave retried
he, she, ithas retried

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill retry

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • hear or try a court case anew:rehear

Word family

3 related words
Relatedretrial
Derivedretriableretrier

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
retrograderetrospectB1returnA2returnable

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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