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Retaliations
- noun - action taken in return for an injury or offense
Retardations
- noun - a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant"
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
Retributions
- noun - a justly deserved penalty
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
Retrogresses
- verb - get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Retrorockets
- noun - a small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft that is fired to slow or alter its course
Retrovisions
- noun - a vision of events in the distant past
Revaluations
- noun - a new appraisal or evaluation
Reverberates
- verb - be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building"
- have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life"
- ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
- spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
- to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
- treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore"
Reversioners
- noun - (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion