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- English Word Retake Definition To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
- English Word Retaker Definition One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
- English Word Retaliate Definition To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
- English Word Retaliate Definition To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
- English Word Retaliated Definition of Retaliate
- English Word Retaliating Definition of Retaliate
- English Word Retaliation Definition The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
- English Word Retaliative Definition Same as Retaliatory.
- English Word Retaliatory Definition Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
- English Word Retard Definition To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
- English Word Retard Definition To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
- English Word Retard Definition To stay back.
- English Word Retard Definition Retardation; delay.
- English Word Retardation Definition The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
- English Word Retardation Definition That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- English Word Retardation Definition The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
- English Word Retardation Definition The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
- English Word Retardative Definition Tending, or serving, to retard.
- English Word Retarded Definition of Retard
- English Word Retarder Definition One who, or that which, retards.