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- English Word Retired Definition Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
- English Word Retirement Definition The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
- English Word Retirement Definition A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
- English Word Retirer Definition One who retires.
- English Word Retiring Definition of Retire
- English Word Retiring Definition Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.
- English Word Retiring Definition Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.
- English Word Retistene Definition A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.
- English Word Retitelae Definition A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariae.
- English Word Retold Definition imp. & p. p. of Retell.
- English Word Retorsion Definition Same as Retortion.
- English Word Retort Definition To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
- English Word Retort Definition To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- English Word Retort Definition To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
- English Word Retort Definition To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
- English Word Retort Definition The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
- English Word Retort Definition A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
- English Word Retorted Definition of Retort
- English Word Retorter Definition One who retorts.
- English Word Retorting Definition of Retort