Retrogress (n.) Retrogression.
Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
Retrogressive (a.) Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
Retrogressive (a.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
Retrogressively (adv.) In a retrogressive manner.
Retromingency (n.) The quality or state of being retromingent.
Retromingent (a.) Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.
Retromingent (n.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.
Retropulsive (a.) Driving back; repelling.
Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward.
Retrospect (v. i.) To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
Retrospect (n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
Retrospection (n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
Retrospective (a.) Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.
Retrospective (a.) Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Retrospectively (adv.) By way of retrospect.
Retrousse (a.) Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.
Retrovaccination (n.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.
Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
Retroverted (imp. & p. p.) of Retrovert
Retroverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrovert
Retrovert (v. t.) To turn back.
Retroverted (a.) In a state of retroversion.
Retruded (imp. & p. p.) of Retrude
Retruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrude
Retrude (v. t.) To thrust back.
Retruse (a.) Abstruse.
Retrusion (n.) The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
Retry (v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
Rette (v. t.) See Aret.
Rettery (n.) A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.
Retting (n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.
Retting (n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
Retund (v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
Re-turn (v. t. & i.) To turn again.
Returned (imp. & p. p.) of Return
Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Return
Return (v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
Return (v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Return (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
Return (v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
Return (v. t.) To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
Return (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known.
Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
Return (n.) That which is returned.
Return (n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
Return (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
Return (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Returnable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
Returnable (a.) Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.
Returner (n.) One who returns.
Returnless (a.) Admitting no return.
Retuse (a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.
Reule (n.& v.) Rule.
Reume (n.) Realm.
Reunion (n.) A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.
Reunion (n.) An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.
Reunite (v. t. & i.) To unite again; to join after separation or variance.
Reunitedly (adv.) In a reunited manner.
Reunition (n.) A second uniting.
Reurge (v. t.) To urge again.
Revaccinate (v. t.) To vaccinate a second time or again.
Revalescence (n.) The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.
Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Revaluation (n.) A second or new valuation.
Revamp (v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
Reve (v. t.) To reave.
Reve (n.) An officer, steward, or governor.
Revealed (imp. & p. p.) of Reveal
Revealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reveal
Reveal (v. t.) To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
Reveal (v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
Reveal (n.) A revealing; a disclosure.
Reveal (n.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
Revealability (n.) The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.
Revealable (a.) Capable of being revealed.
Revealer (n.) One who, or that which, reveals.
Revealment (n.) Act of revealing.
Revegetate (v. i.) To vegetate anew.