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Retouches
- verb - alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!"
- give retouches to (hair); "retouch the roots"
Retracing
- verb - reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
- to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
Retracted
- verb - drawn back and in; "a cat with retracted claws"
- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- pull away from a source of disgust or fear
- pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"
- use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Retractor
- noun - description of a muscle that retracts an organ or other body part
- surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision
Retrained
- verb - teach new skills; "We must retrain the linguists who cannot find employment"
- train again; "He is retraining to become an IT worker"
Retreaded
- verb - give new treads to (a tire)
- use again in altered form; "retread an old plot"
Retreated
- verb - make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"
- move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"
- move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
- people who have retreated; "he had only contempt for the retreated"
- pull back or move away or backward;
Retribute
- - To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal.
Retrieval
- noun - (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor"