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Retroact

To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

Retroactive

Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

Retrocedent

Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

Retrochoir

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.

Retroflexion

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

Retrograde

To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.

Retrogression

The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

Retrogressive

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Retromingent

Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Retrospect

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

Retrospection

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Retrospective

Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

Retroversion

A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

Retrusion

The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.

Retry

To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

Rettery

A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.

Retting

The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.

Retund

To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.

Return

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.

Returnable

Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

Retuse

Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

Reunion

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.

Reunite

To unite again; to join after separation or variance.

Revalescence

The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.

Revamp

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

Reve

An officer, steward, or governor.

Reveal

A revealing; a disclosure.

Revealability

The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.

Revealer

One who, or that which, reveals.

Reveille

The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.

Revel

To draw back; to retract.

Revelation

The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

Revelator

One who makes a revelation; a revealer.

Revellent

Causing revulsion; revulsive. A revulsive medicine.

Revelous

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.

Revelry

The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

Revenge

The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Revengeable

Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong.

Revengeful

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.

Revenue

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

Reverberant

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

Reverberation

The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Reverberative

Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.

Revere

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.

Reverence

To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

Reverend

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

Reverent

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.

Reverential

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.

Reverently

In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

Revers

A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.

Reversal

The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

Reversed

Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

Reversely

In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.

Reversible

Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

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