retort

retort is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
2. noun. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
3. noun. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
4. intransitive verb. To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
5. transitive verb. The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. noun. a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
8. noun. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

   "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"

   Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, return, riposte

9. verb. answer back

   Synonyms: rejoin, repay, return, riposte

Synonyms

comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, return, riposte, rejoin, repay

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in retort:

retrot, rotter, torret

Common word forms

retorts, retorted, retorter, retorting, retortable

Words from these letters

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