Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
- 2noun
To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- 3noun
To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
- 4intransitive verb
To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
- 5transitive verb
The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7noun
a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
- 8noun
a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
"it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
- 9verb
answer back
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