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Retrenchment
- noun - entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
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"
Retrocession
- - The act of retroceding.
Retroduction
- - A leading or bringing back.
Retrofitting
- verb - fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house; "The mansion was retrofitted with modern plumbing"
- provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture; "They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors"
- substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones; "The laboratory retrofitted to meet the safety codes"
Retroflexion
- noun - a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part; "retroversion of the uterus"
- an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth
- the act of bending backward
Retroflexxed
- verb - articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"
- bend or turn backward