Crossword-Solution: RETORT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retort | n. | To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. |
| Retort | n. | To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. |
| Retort | n. | To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity. |
| Retort | v. i. | To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply. |
| Retort | v. t. | The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response. |
| Retort | v. t. | A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETORT | anagram | ROTTER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with RETORT (5)
Hence, all my Flatland friends—when I talk to them about the unrecognized Dimension which is somehow visible in a Line—say, ‘Ah, you mean _brightness_’: and when I reply, ‘No, I mean a real Dimension,’ they at once retort, ‘Then measure it, or tell us in what direction it extends’; and this silences me, for I can do neither.
But suppose that he were to retort, 'Thrasymachus, what do you mean? If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one?--is that your meaning?'--How would you answer him? Just as if the two cases were at all alike! he said.
Woodhouse’s peculiarities and fidgetiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill-bestowed.
Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, “Miss Morton is Lord Morton’s daughter.” Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister’s audacity.
She had expected a retort in kind, and it startled her to hear her exclamation sounding on through silence.
Quotes with RETORT (3)
There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding the religious feelings of others, has been known to retort that they disregard his feelings, by persisting in their abominable worship or creed. But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it…
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort... only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
She's fifteen!" Nash shrugged. "That's just a number. It doesn't say anything about her.""It says something pretty damn funny about your IQ!" I said, and he opened his mouth to retort, but I spoke over him. "Fifteen is too young to drive, too young to get a legal job, too young to sign a lease, and obviously too young to pick a boyfriend with half a brain.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 139 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).