<B>retire, </B>verb, <B>-tired,</B> <B>-tiring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to give up an office or occupation, especially because of approaching old age. <BR> <I>Ex. Our teachers retire at 65. You and your wife ... look forward to the day when you can retire (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to go away, especially to a place which is more quiet. <BR> <I>Ex. She retired to the country. The Roman senators still retired in the winter season to the warm sun, and the salubrious springs, of Bai (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to go back; retreat. <BR> <I>Ex. The enemy retired before the advance of our troops.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to go to bed. <BR> <I>Ex. We retire early.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to recede or appear to recede. <BR> <I>Ex. Gradually the shore retired from view.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to remove from an office or occupation. <DD><B> 2. </B>to withdraw; draw back; send back. <BR> <I>Ex. The government retires worn or torn dollar bills from use.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to withdraw from circulation and pay off (bonds, loans, or other securities). <DD><B> 4. </B>to put out (a batter or side) in baseball and cricket. noun <B>retirer.</B> </DL>
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<B>retired, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>withdrawn from one's occupation. <BR> <I>Ex. a retired sea captain, a retired teacher.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>reserved; retiring. <BR> <I>Ex. She has a shy, retired nature.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>secluded; shut off; hidden. <BR> <I>Ex. a retired spot.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a retired person. adv. <B>retiredly.</B> noun <B>retiredness.</B> </DL>
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<B>retired list,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a list of persons who have been retired from active service in the armed services. </DL>
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<B>retiree, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who has retired from his occupation. </DL>
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<B>retirement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of retiring or state of being retired; withdrawal. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher's retirement from teaching was regretted by the school. He thus had a choice of prison in the U.S. or retirement in Italy (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a quiet way or place of living. <BR> <I>Ex. A hermit lives in retirement, away from everyone.</I> </DL>
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<B>retiring, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shrinking from society or publicity; reserved; shy; bashful. <BR> <I>Ex. The girl next door has a retiring nature.</I> adv. <B>retiringly.</B> noun <B>retiringness.</B> </DL>
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<B>retitrate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-trated,</B> <B>-trating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to titrate (a solution) again after some change, as that caused by exposure to the air. </DL>
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<B>retold, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of <B>retell.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. He then retold the story for the newcomers.</I> </DL>
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<B>retook, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense of <B>retake.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The army retook the fort.</I> </DL>
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<B>retool, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to change the tools, machinery, designs, or methods, in a plant to make new models or products. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make over for this purpose. </DL>
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<B>retorsion, </B>noun. <B>=retortion.</B></DL>
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<B>retort</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to reply quickly or sharply. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to say in sharp reply. <BR> <I>Ex. "It's none of your business," he retorted.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to return in kind; turn back on. <BR> <I>Ex. to retort insult for insult or blow for blow.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of retorting. <DD><B> 2. </B>a sharp or witty reply, especially one that turns the first speaker's statement or argument against him. <BR> <I>Ex. "Why are your teeth so sharp?" asked Red Ridinghood. "The better to eat you with" was the wolf's retort.</I> </DL>
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<B>retort</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a container used for distilling or decomposing substances by heat. <DD><B> 2. </B>a container for heating an ore to separate the metal by distillation. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to distill by heating in a retort. <BR> <I>Ex. Retorting of this mass of broken shale in place might release an additional 25 million barrels of petroleum products (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>retorter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who retorts metals. </DL>
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<B>retort-gas tar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> coal tar collected as a by-product at various points in the manufacture of gas from coal. </DL>
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<B>retortion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of turning or bending back. <DD><B> 2. </B>(International Law.) a retaliation in kind by one state upon the citizens of another by imposing equivalent restrictions to those originally imposed on the citizens of the other state. </DL>
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<B>retouch, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to improve (as a photographic negative, painting, or composition) by new touches or slight changes. <BR> <I>Ex. Retouched and smoothed and prettified to please (Berton Braley).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to give retouches. <BR> <I>Ex. retouch a little, here and there, before the paint dries.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> asecond or further touch given, as to a picture or composition, to improve it. noun <B>retoucher.</B> </DL>
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<B>retour, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to revert (to a person). <DD><B> 2. </B>to return (to a place). </DL>
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<B>retrace, </B>transitive verb, <B>-traced,</B> <B>-tracing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to go or trace back over. <BR> <I>Ex. We retraced our steps to where we started. Slowly, hesitatingly, he retraced the route the doctor had taken, down the steps onto the tough rocky ground (Graham Greene).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to trace again in memory; recall. <BR> <I>Ex. Shall one retrace his life? (Ernest Dowson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to go over again with the sight or attention. adj. <B>retraceable.</B> </DL>
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<B>re-trace, </B>transitive verb, <B>-traced,</B> <B>-tracing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to trace over again. <BR> <I>Ex. re-traced lines in a drawing.</I> </DL>
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<B>retract, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to draw back or in. <BR> <I>Ex. to retract a plane's landing gear. The kitten retracted her claws and purred when I petted her. The dog snarled and retracted his lips.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to withdraw; take back. <BR> <I>Ex. to retract an offer or an opinion.</I> (SYN) revoke, rescind, recall. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be able to draw back or in. <BR> <I>Ex. claws that retract.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a withdrawal; be taken back. adj. <B>retractable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="retractability">
<B>retractability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the property of being retractable. </DL>
<A NAME="retractation">
<B>retractation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of retracting a promise, statement, or the like. </DL>
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<B>retracted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Phonetics.) pronounced with the tongue drawn farther back than normal for a particular vowel. </DL>
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<B>retractile, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be drawn back or in. </DL>
<A NAME="retractility">
<B>retractility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being retractile. </DL>
<A NAME="retraction">
<B>retraction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of drawing or condition of being drawn back or in. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of taking back; withdrawal of a promise, statement, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. The boy who accused her of cheating made a retraction of the charge. The newspaper published a retraction of the erroneous report.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>retractile power. </DL>
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<B>retractive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending or serving to retract. </DL>
<A NAME="retractor">
<B>retractor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that draws back something. <DD><B> 2. </B>a muscle that retracts an organ, protruded part, or other process. <DD><B> 3. </B>a surgical instrument for drawing back the edges of an incision or wound. </DL>
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<B>retrain, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to train again, especially in order to teach a new skill or reinforce something already learned. <BR> <I>Ex. Every dancer in the company either has been trained by Balanchine from an early stage, or has been retrained according to Balanchine's principles of dance technique (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to undergo retraining. </DL>
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<B>retrainable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be retrained. <BR> <I>Ex. retrainable workers.</I> </DL>
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<B>retral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> at the back; posterior. <BR> <I>Ex. Beneath the retral ethmoidal spike is seen the olfactory groove (Journal of Microscopic Sciences).</I> adv. <B>retrally.</B> </DL>
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<B>retransfer, </B>verb, <B>-ferred,</B> <B>-ferring,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to transfer back to a former place or condition. <DD><B> 2. </B>to transfer a second time. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a transfer back to a previous place or condition. <DD><B> 2. </B>a second transfer. </DL>
<A NAME="retransform">
<B>retransform, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to transform again or to a previous state. noun <B>retransformation.</B> </DL>
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<B>retranslate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to translate back into the original form or language. <BR> <I>Ex. Of Cicero ... he had translated and retranslated every extant oration (James Pycroft).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="retranslation">
<B>retranslation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of retranslating. <DD><B> 2. </B>what is retranslated. </DL>
<A NAME="retransmission">
<B>retransmission, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> transmission back to a source or to a new destination. <BR> <I>Ex. Six long panels of solar batteries ... supply electrical power to the satellite for retransmission of signals received from earth (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>retransmit, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mitted,</B> <B>-mitting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to transmit back again or further on. <BR> <I>Ex. The response is received by the satellite and again retransmitted at high power (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
