retort
Meaning of retort
verb
- say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry, or witty manner.
‘No need to be rude,’ retorted Isabel
he retorted that this was nonsense
- repay (an insult or injury).
it was now his time to retort the humiliation
- a sharp, angry, or witty reply.
she opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort
late 15th century (in the sense ‘hurl back an accusation or insult’): from Latin retort- ‘twisted back, cast back’, from the verb retorquere, from re- ‘in return’ + torquere ‘to twist’.
noun- a container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale.
gas was made by baking coal in airtight retorts
- heat in a retort in order to separate or purify.
the raw shale is retorted at four crude oil works
early 16th century: from French retorte, from medieval Latin retorta, feminine past participle of retorquere ‘twist back’ (with reference to the long recurved neck of the laboratory container).
Information about retort
- The plural form of retort is: retorts.
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CatalanHyphenation of retort
re-tort
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- retort is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
retort synonyms
Meaning rejoinder:
rejoinder, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
Meaning come back:
repay, return, riposte, rejoin
Meaning say or write something as a reaction to someone or something:
Meaning say something in response to something someone has said:
Meaning say something in reply:
Meaning accept or admit the existence or truth of:
Meaning make an attack in return for a similar attack:
Meaning an answer to a question in a test, questionnaire, etc:
Meaning acceptance of the truth or existence of something:
Meaning a witty or lively remark, especially one made as an attack or as a diversion in an argument; a retort:
Meaning the action of returning a military attack; counter-attack:
Anagrams of retort
Words that rhyme with retort
tort, detort, contort, intort, abstort, bistort, distort, overdistort, extort
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