redial
Americanverb (used with object)
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redials,
present (3rd person singular)
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redialed,
past participle, past
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redialled,
past participle, past (especially British)
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redialing,
present participle
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redialling
present participle (especially British)
noun
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redials
plural
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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redialsimple
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redialssimple
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have redialedperfect
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have redialledperfect
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has redialedperfect
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has redialledperfect
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am redialingprogressive
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am rediallingprogressive
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are redialingprogressive
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are rediallingprogressive
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is redialingprogressive
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is rediallingprogressive
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have been redialingperfect progressive
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have been rediallingperfect progressive
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has been redialingperfect progressive
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has been rediallingperfect progressive
Past
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redialedsimple
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redialledsimple
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had redialedperfect
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had redialledperfect
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was redialingprogressive
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was rediallingprogressive
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were redialingprogressive
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were rediallingprogressive
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had been redialingperfect progressive
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had been rediallingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of redial
Example Sentences
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Google is also making it easier to redial dropped calls and switch to your mobile network if your Wi-Fi connection was the reason your call failed.
From The Verge ● Jul. 28, 2021
I redial repeatedly but cannot get through again.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2017
Lisa Schwartzbaum wrote in Entertainment Weekly: “To redial applicable catchphrases, this garbled American remake … is a wrong number.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2017
Rare is the lengthy cellphone call that isn’t dropped at some point, requiring one party or the other to redial.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2016
Her mom paced back and forth, punching redial on the handset, muttering under her breath, how could you forget your only daughter’s birthday?
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Grody hates how, when she fails to answer her husband’s calls, he redials incessantly — three, four, five times — until she picks up.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
“It takes 150 redials before I get lucky and get someone on the phone. This sort of became my de facto job — trying to get in touch with them to follow up the claim.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2020
“It takes 150 redials before I get lucky and get someone on the phone,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2020
Accidentally pressing the code that redials the previously called outside number, he was again connected with his wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frantically, Computer Scientist Carl Ebeling, a former student of Berliner's, redials the number that restores the vital link to Hitech.
From Time Magazine Archive
I called back, then again, and again — I might have redialed like 16 times — only to get the same result.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2020
When a negotiator who called himself "Officer Andy" dialed and redialed, he and another police officer talked about the killer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2016
The doctor thought she made a mistake and redialed.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2016
The two officers made no move to follow the suspects, so a mob of elderly villagers converged on the developer’s dormitories and redialed the police.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
He hung up, waited, then redialed the familiar number.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
As the afternoon wore on, Barbara stood in the parking lot, dialing and redialing anyone who might know where her sister could be.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
No longer, then, should you think that these calls are coming from some boiler room filled with low-paid workers dialing and redialing with the same sales pitch.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2012
“Secretaries would spend hours just dialing and redialing phone numbers trying to get through,” Halimah Brugger, an American who moved there in 1968, told me.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2011
“As if I didn’t know that,” I say, redialing Tats’s cell.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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