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Retaining
- verb - allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
- hold back within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"; "the dam retains the water"
- keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"
- secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"
Retarding
- verb - be delayed
- cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
- lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
- slow the growth or development of;
Retelling
- verb - make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"
- render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story"
- to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request"
Reticking
- verb - sew; "tick a mattress"
Retooling
- verb - provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools
- revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy"
Retorting
- verb - answer back
- replied sharply and angrily
Retracing
- verb - reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
- to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
Returning
- verb - answer back
- be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
- bring back to the point of departure
- elect again
- give back; "render money"
- give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
- go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
- go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
- make a return; "return a kickback"
- pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
- pay back; "Please refund me my money"
Reuniting
- verb - have a reunion; unite again
- unify again, as of a country; "Will Korea reunify?"
Revaluing
- verb - gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!"
- value anew; "revalue the German Mark"