redial
verb (used with object)
Also re-dial. to dial again.
redialing
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present participleof redial.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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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
