| ret | (verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue | - |
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| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retake | (verb) photograph again | - |
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| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| retard | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| retch | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| 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 |