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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

retally en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + tally.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To tally again; to recount.
    • In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by The New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied. 2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times:

Forms

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retallies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
retallied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
retallied Tense=Past lexicographic
retallying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic