| rethink | (verb) change one's mind | - |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| retie | (verb) tie again or anew | - |
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| retire | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: bed, crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, sack out, turn in |
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| (verb) cause to get out | Synonyms: strike out |
| (verb) cause to be out on a fielding play | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retreat, withdraw |
| (verb) dispose of (something no longer useful or needed) | - |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, withdraw |
| (verb) go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position | - |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) make (someone) retire | - |
| (verb) withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds | - |
| retool | (verb) provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: revise |
| retort | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
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| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| retrace | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, reconstruct |
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| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: trace |
| retract | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, resile |
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| (verb) pull inward or towards a center | Synonyms: draw in |
| (verb) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | Synonyms: draw back, pull back |
| (verb) pull away from a source of disgust or fear | Synonyms: shrink back |
| retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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| (verb) teach new skills | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| retread | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
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| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| retreat | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw |
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| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, withdraw |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retrograde |
| (verb) move away, as for privacy | - |
| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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| (verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
| (verb) go for and bring back | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
| retrofit | (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
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| (verb) fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house | - |
| (verb) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture | - |
| retroflex | (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
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| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| retrograde | (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, rehash |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retreat |
| (verb) move in a direction contrary to the usual one | - |
| (verb) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies | - |
| retrogress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrograde |
| retrospect | (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
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| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| retry | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: rehear |
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| return | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
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| (verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
| (verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
| (verb) make a return | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
| (verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
| (verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
| (verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
| (verb) return in kind | - |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
| (verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
| reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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| reunite | (verb) have a reunion; unite again | - |
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| (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunify |
| reuse | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reprocess |
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| rev | (verb) increase the number of rotations per minute | Synonyms: rev up |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| revamp | (verb) to patch up or renovate; repair or restore | - |
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| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: vamp |
| reveal | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, unveil |
| (verb) disclose directly or through prophets | - |
| revel | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, enjoy |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, wassail, whoop it up |
| revenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| revere | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, reverence, venerate |
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| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, worship |
| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| reverse | (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
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| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| review | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| revise | (verb) make revisions in | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| revoke | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
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| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| revolt | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
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| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
| (verb) make revolution | - |
| revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| reward | (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rewrite | (verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
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| (verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |