| 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 |
| retrospection | (noun) memory for experiences that are past | - |
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| (noun) reference to things past | - |
| retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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| (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
| retrospectively | (adverb) in a manner contemplative of past events | - |
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| retrousse | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: tip-tilted, upturned |
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| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| retrovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| retry | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: rehear |
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