Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retrain
Participle: retrained
Gerund: retraining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retrain |
| you | retrain |
| he;she;it | retrains |
| we | retrain |
| you | retrain |
| they | retrain |
Perfect
| I | have retrained |
| you | have retrained |
| he;she;it | has retrained |
| we | have retrained |
| you | have retrained |
| they | have retrained |
Past
| I | retrained |
| you | retrained |
| he;she;it | retrained |
| we | retrained |
| you | retrained |
| they | retrained |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrained |
| you | had retrained |
| he;she;it | had retrained |
| we | had retrained |
| you | had retrained |
| they | had retrained |
Future
| I | will retrain |
| you | will retrain |
| he;she;it | will retrain |
| we | will retrain |
| you | will retrain |
| they | will retrain |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retrained |
| you | will have retrained |
| he;she;it | will have retrained |
| we | will have retrained |
| you | will have retrained |
| they | will have retrained |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retrain |
| you | retrain |
| he;she;it | retrain |
| we | retrain |
| you | retrain |
| they | retrain |
Perfect
| I | have retrained |
| you | have retrained |
| he;she;it | have retrained |
| we | have retrained |
| you | have retrained |
| they | have retrained |
Imperfect
| I | retrained |
| you | retrained |
| he;she;it | retrained |
| we | retrained |
| you | retrained |
| they | retrained |
Pluperfect
| I | had retrained |
| you | had retrained |
| he;she;it | had retrained |
| we | had retrained |
| you | had retrained |
| they | had retrained |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retrain |
| you | would retrain |
| he;she;it | would retrain |
| we | would retrain |
| you | would retrain |
| they | would retrain |
Perfect
| I | would have retrained |
| you | would have retrained |
| he;she;it | would have retrained |
| we | would have retrained |
| you | would have retrained |
| they | would have retrained |
Imperative
| you | retrain |
| we | Let's retrain |
| you | retrain |
Verbs conjugated like 'retrain'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retrain'
detrain,
pretrain,
redrain,
refrain,
restrain,
retain,
berain,
betrail,
debrain,
derain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *wre-
3. Latin re-der.
4. Old French re-bor.
5. Middle English re-
6. English re-
7. English train
8. English retrain
9. From re- + train.
Sample Sentences
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New York City's largest hospital has agreed to retrain some unionized employees whose jobs were to be eliminated under an austerity drive, the hospital and its largest labor union said yesterday. [1989 February 25, “Hospital Will Retrain Workers to Save Jobs”, in The New York Times:]
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In 1995, Sharon Brown and her husband, Daryck, founded Environmental and Occupational Safety Services at their kitchen table. The company, which retrains workers in the fields of environmental engineering and cleanup, started to grow by winning contracts from the state of New Jersey and later branched out to do work for the federal government as well. [2009 October 7, Sharon McLoone, “Building a Company on Government Contracts”, in The New York Times:]
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If we choose to change our diets and consistently eat healthier foods we retrain our brains, and the foods we initially found distasteful will become enjoyable. [2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 81:]
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The process of retraining a large volume of pilots, who have been idle for different periods of time over the past year is complex and challenging. [2021 May 7, Ceylan Yeginsu, “‘It’s Not Quite Like Riding a Bike’: Pilots Get Ready to Fly Again”, in The New York Times:]
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For about $1,000 per student annually, the program retrained teachers and administrators and paid for new classroom materials, better aligned to cognitive research. [2023 December 4, Dana Goldstein, “What Costs $1,000 Per Student and Might Help Children Learn to Read?”, in The New York Times:]