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Restrain
- 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
Retinals
- noun - either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light
Retiracy
- - Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
Retirade
- - A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
Retreads
- noun - a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads
- give new treads to (a tire)
- use again in altered form; "retread an old plot"
Retreats
- noun - (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops"
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- an area where you can be alone
- 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"
- pull back or move away or backward;
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retr
Retrials
- noun - a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors
Retroact
- - Intransitive verb
1. To act in opposition, to react
2. To have reference to or influence on past occurrences
- To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
Reuptake
- noun - a process of using up or consuming again; "psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters"