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
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
The officer used the redial feature on the store phone to identify the call.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 13, 2016
I click redial as Dad is led into a swarm of navy jackets.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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
Mr. Kasanic said he had spent hours dialing and redialing four Ohio numbers: three wound through a maze of messages that ended with a dead line and a fourth was always busy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
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
“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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