| 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 | (noun) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale | - |
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| (adverb) at a retail price | - |
| (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| 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 | - |
| retained | (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: maintained |
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| retainer | (noun) a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: servant |
| (noun) a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone | Synonyms: consideration |
| retake | (noun) a shot or scene that is photographed again | - |
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| (verb) photograph again | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| 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 |
| retaliation | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: revenge |
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| retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retaliator | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: avenger |
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| retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retard | (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron |
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| (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (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 | - |
| retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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| retardation | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, slowdown |
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| (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, slowing |
| (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, slowness, subnormality |
| (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardent |
| (noun) the extent to which something is delayed or held back | - |
| retarded | (adjective) relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development | - |
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| (noun) people collectively who are mentally retarded | Synonyms: developmentally challenged, mentally retarded |
| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| retch | (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: heave |
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| (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 |
| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| rete | (noun) a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels | Synonyms: plexus |
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| 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 |
| retem | (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam |
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| retention | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, keeping |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retentiveness, retentivity |
| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| retentively | (adverb) in a retentive manner | - |
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| retentiveness | (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentivity |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity |
| retentivity | (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness |
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| (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentiveness |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentiveness |
| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| (verb) change one's mind | - |
| reticence | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, taciturnity |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| reticently | (adverb) with reticence; in a reticent manner | - |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| reticle | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: graticule, reticule |
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| reticular | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticulate |
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| reticulate | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticular |
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| (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| reticulation | (noun) an arrangement resembling a net or network | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion | - |
| reticule | (noun) a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries | - |
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| (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: graticule, reticle |
| reticulocyte | (noun) an immature red blood cell containing a network of filaments or granules | - |
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| reticulum | (noun) the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: second stomach |
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| (noun) any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels) | - |
| retie | (verb) tie again or anew | - |
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| retina | (noun) the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve | - |
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| retinal | (adjective) in or relating to the retina of the eye | - |
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| (noun) either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light | Synonyms: retinene |
| retinene | (noun) either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light | Synonyms: retinal |
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| retinitis | (noun) inflammation of the retina | - |
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| retinoblastoma | (noun) malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells | - |
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| retinol | (noun) an unsaturated alcohol that occurs in marine fish-liver oils and is synthesized biologically from carotene | Synonyms: vitamin A1 |
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| retinopathy | (noun) a disease of the retina that can result in loss of vision | - |
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| retinue | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, entourage, suite |
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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 | - |
| retired | (adjective) no longer active in your work or profession | - |
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| retiree | (noun) someone who has retired from active working | Synonyms: retired person |
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| retirement | (noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation | - |
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| (noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retreat |
| (noun) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation | - |
| retiring | (adjective) not arrogant or presuming | Synonyms: unassuming |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, preceding |
| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: reticent, self-effacing |
| 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 | (noun) a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, return, riposte |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
| 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 |
| retractable | (adjective) capable of being retracted | - |
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| retracted | (adjective) drawn back and in | - |
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| retractile | (adjective) capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back | - |
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| retraction | (noun) the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back | - |
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| (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: abjuration, recantation |
| retractor | (noun) surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision | - |
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| retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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| (verb) teach new skills | - |
| retraining | (noun) training for a new occupation | - |
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| retral | (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| (adjective) at or near or toward the posterior | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| retreat | (noun) (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat | - |
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| (noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retirement |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) | - |
| (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: hideaway |
| (noun) (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset | - |
| (noun) (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position | - |
| (noun) a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet | - |
| (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 |
| (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 | - |
| retreatant | (noun) a participant in a religious retreat | - |
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| retreated | (noun) people who have retreated | - |
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| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| retrenchment | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, downsizing |
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| (noun) entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense | - |
| retrial | (noun) a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors | - |
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| retribution | (noun) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, vengeance |
| (noun) a justly deserved penalty | Synonyms: requital |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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| retrieval | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: recovery |
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| (noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory | - |
| 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 |
| retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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| retro | (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retroactive |
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| (noun) a fashion reminiscent of the past | - |
| retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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| (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
| retroactively | (adverb) after the fact | - |
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| retrofit | (noun) the act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured | - |
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| (noun) a component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured | - |
| (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
| (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 | - |
| retroflection | (noun) the act of bending backward | Synonyms: retroflexion |
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| (noun) an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth | Synonyms: retroflexion |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflexion, retroversion |
| retroflex | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflexed |
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| (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: cacuminal |
| (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| retroflexed | (adjective) bent or curved backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| retroflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward | Synonyms: retroflection |
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| (noun) an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth | Synonyms: retroflection |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroversion |
| retrogaming | (noun) The hobby of playing or collecting older video games and computer games. | - |
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| retrograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma | - |
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| (adjective) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth | - |
| (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrogressive |
| (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retral |
| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
| (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 |
| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| retronym | (noun) a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate | - |
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| retrorocket | (noun) a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course | - |
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| retrorse | (adjective) bent or curved backward or downward | - |
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| retrospect | (noun) contemplation of things past | - |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |