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- English Word Retriever Definition One who retrieves.
- English Word Retriever Definition A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
- English Word Retrieving Definition of Retrieve
- English Word Retrim Definition To trim again.
- English Word Retriment Definition Refuse; dregs.
- English Word Retro- Definition A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as, retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.
- English Word Retroact Definition To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
- English Word Retroaction Definition Action returned, or action backward.
- English Word Retroaction Definition Operation on something past or preceding.
- English Word Retroactive Definition Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
- English Word Retroactively Definition In a retroactive manner.
- English Word Retrocede Definition To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.
- English Word Retrocede Definition To go back.
- English Word Retrocedent Definition Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.
- English Word Retrocession Definition The act of retroceding.
- English Word Retrocession Definition The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
- English Word Retrocession Definition Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
- English Word Retrochoir Definition Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
- English Word Retrocopulant Definition Copulating backward, or from behind.
- English Word Retrocopulation Definition Copulation from behind.