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⚖️ To judge again 🔄 To try again 🔄 Another try
to retry

to retry

18 5.4
Hear a case again in court after the first trial ends without a decision
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈtraɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : volver a juzgar
  • The appellate court ruled... that since there was no valid trial record... the court could not properly hear the appeal and ordered that Beamer be retried.
  • retry the case

And so I was retried again in absentia.

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Examples

  • The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, and the case has not been retried.

    Blog text (6)

  • That means the case could be retried and we start all over again.

    Blog text (4)

  • We cannot retry him, because all of our evidence has been thrown out.

    The Star Chamber (1983)

  • Let's not retry the case.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The prosecution moves to retry and asks for a new trial date.

    Guilty as Sin (1993)

  • Criminal defense lawyers claim that perhaps 20 capital cases may have to be retried because of doubts about his testimony.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Hey, Joe, do you think District Attorney Peters is serious about retrying on the 1984 murder charge?

    Power of Attorney (1995)

  • Rice said that he has serious doubts that there was enough evidence to retry Nicholas as the case was circumstantial and not that strong without the DNA evidence.

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)

  • Not guilty, of course, Kyle Rittenhouse cannot be retried by this court because of our double jeopardy rules.

    Megyn Kelly

  • The court decided to retry the case after new evidence was presented.

Synonyms

to try again
vsto retry
461 1.0

Do something one more time after you fail

is specific to repeating a court hearing after an invalidated or undecided case
to rehear
vsto retry
  • Formal
1 7.2

To hear a case again in court, especially after an appeal or new evidence

is used when a previous trial was voided or ended without verdict
to relitigate
vsto retry
  • Formal
1 8.0

To take a legal case to court again after it was decided

is used when earlier proceedings were invalidated or produced no verdict

Antonyms

to dismiss
  • Formal
192 4.1

To end a legal case so the court does not consider it

How Serious

to relitigate
  • Formal
1 8.0
to retry
  • Specialized
18 5.4
appeal
  • Formal
365 6.1
to rehear
  • Formal
1 7.2
to reopen
182 1.4
to challenge
  • Formal
552 4.3
to question
777 3.5

Surface Forms

retry infinitive
retried past
retried past participle
retrying present participle
retries third person singular

Morphology

retry = try (transparent) = re + try

In the legal sense, 're-' adds the regular meaning 'again' to 'try' meaning 'hear a case'.

Etymology

Retry comes from re- 'again' and try 'to judge or examine', the same idea behind trial. So to retry a case is to 'hear or judge it again'.