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Restrainers
- noun - a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film
- a person who directs and restrains
Restraining
- verb - hold back
- keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
- to compel or deter by or as if by threats
Retinaculum
- - A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves. (b) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
Retinal Rod
- noun - a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light
- visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
Retreatants
- noun - a participant in a religious retreat
Retreatment
- - The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira.
Retroaction
- - Action returned, or action backward.
Retroactive
- adjective - affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay"
- descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously
Revelations
- noun - an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
- communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
- the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
- the speech act of making something evident
Revitalised
- verb - give new life or vigor to
- restored to new life and vigor; "a revitalized economy"; "a revitalized inner-city neighborhood"