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retry

 verb
     
Related topics: Law, Computers
re‧try past tense and past participle retried, present participle retrying, third person singular retries [transitive]
1SCL to judge a person or a law case again in court [↪ retrial]
2TD to do an action on a computer again after it has failed
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