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RETORTION

Definitions: RETORTION

RETORTION

Transitive verb

1. Retaliation.

2. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: RETORTION

English words defined with "RETORTION": Retorsion. (references)

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Modern Translations: RETORTION

Language Translations for "RETORTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إفحام الخصم, ‏رد بالمثل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

репресивна мярка (reprisal, retaliation, retort), обръщане назад, прегъване назад, извиване назад. (various references)

   

Czech

  

odveta (backlash, reprisal, retaliation, retort, retribution, return, revenge, vengeance). (various references)

   

French

  

rétorsion (retaliation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

behajtás (exaction, getting back, housing, sag, tuck). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etortionray

   

Portuguese

  

retorção, represália (comeback, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retort, revenge, vengeance, victimization). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ripostã (rejoinder, repartee, retort, riposte), replicã (catchword, counterpart, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, replication, reply, respond, response, retort, tag). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

реторсия, загибание назад. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vraćanje istom merom, posuvraćenje. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

misilleme (answer, quittance, recompense, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retaliatory, retribution), geriye eğme, geriye doğru bükme, aynen karşılık verme (reprisal). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự uốn ngược trở lại sự đàn áp trả thù kiều dân nước ngoài, sự bẻ ngược trở lại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "RETORTION"

Words rhyming with "RETORTION" (pronounced 'Re*tor"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RETORTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"

-2 letters: rootier, torrent, tortoni, tritone.

-3 letters: enroot, intort, ironer, norite, orient, retint, retorn, retort, rioter, ritter, rooter, rotten, rotter, territ, tinter, tonier, tooter, torero, torten, triter, triton.

-4 letters: inert, inter, intro, irone, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, oorie, otter, retro, rotor, rotte, tenor, titer, titre, toner, torot, torte, toter, trier, trine, trite, trone.

-5 letters: inro, into.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: intertroop.

 

+2 letters: extortioner, ornithopter, restoration, retroaction, trimetrogon.

 

+3 letters: extortionary, extortioners, interlocutor, interoceptor, interpolator, interrogator, ornithopters, restorations, retroactions, retrodiction, trigonometry, trimetrogons.

 

+4 letters: anticorporate, containerport, controverting, deterioration, gerontocratic, interlocutors, interlocutory, interoceptors, interpolators, interrogation, interrogators, interrogatory, orchestration, overnutrition, proportionate, protonotaries, reexportation, reforestation, reimportation, remonstration, reorientation, retrodictions, retroflection, retrospection, terrorization, trigonometric.

 

+5 letters: anthropometric, containerports, controvertible, corticosterone, deteriorations, erythropoietin, intercorporate, interrogations, nonretroactive, orchestrations, overextraction, overnutritions, overprotecting, overprotection, oversaturation, proportionated, proportionates, prothonotaries, reconstruction, reexportations, reforestations, reimportations, reintroduction, remonstrations, reorientations, retroflections, retrogradation, retrospections, terrorizations, trigonometries, trisoctahedron.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RETORTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 54 4F 52 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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