retrovert
put back
retrocede
fall back upon
go back
recurve
retrogress
resort
set back
backhanded
recede
redound
unabandon
back
reflex
recurvate
backpedal
reversive
retreat
returning
retrograde
trace
retrace
back off
rechange
retrotort
take water
start with a clean sheet
retrose
spill
renversement
unreverse
reflexed
retroflect
backstep
retrorsal
rehash
hash over
downturn
redecussate
pervert
doubling
umbedraw
veer
retort
recarry
reel
dos a dos
crank
contra
retrocedent
turn over
retake
retrieve
tergiversate
retrocessive
endward
retropose
retrodisplace
recessive
crab
revert
unreject
capsize
cede
transverse
bewend
backwind
zig
reprive
retroversion
reverted
fall back
swing
inhibit
retroflex
impound
revertive
replicate
screw
reversion
reversible
repass
draw back
from side to side
gostun
turn out
uninvert
spread out
recline
rotate
splay
regredient
retransition
reloosen
backhanded
reversive
returning
retrose
reflexed
retrorsal
retrocedent
retrocessive
recessive
reverted
revertive
reversible
regredient
dos a dos
endward
renversement
doubling
retroversion
reversion
retrovert
put back
retrocede
fall back upon
go back
recurve
retrogress
resort
set back
recede
redound
unabandon
back
reflex
recurvate
backpedal
retreat
retrograde
trace
retrace
back off
rechange
retrotort
take water
start with a clean sheet
spill
unreverse
retroflect
backstep
rehash
hash over
downturn
redecussate
pervert
umbedraw
veer
retort
recarry
reel
crank
contra
turn over
retake
retrieve
tergiversate
retropose
retrodisplace
crab
revert
unreject
capsize
cede
transverse
bewend
backwind
zig
reprive
fall back
swing
inhibit
retroflex
impound
replicate
screw
repass
draw back
gostun
turn out
uninvert
spread out
recline
rotate
splay
retransition
reloosen
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- To reverberate, to echo.
- To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- To arise from or out of something.
- To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
noun
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
noun
- The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
adj
verb
- move back
- pull back or move away or backward
- move away, as for privacy
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
noun
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
verb
- to go back over again
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- discover traces of
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
noun
- a just detectable amount
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
adj
verb
- To come undone.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
adj
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To take a step backwards
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
noun
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
adj
verb
verb
- To bend or curve back.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
noun
- A pressure cooker.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
verb
verb
- To back off, step away, or sway backwards unsteadily and suddenly.
- To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
- To wind on a reel.
- To produce a mechanical insect-like song, as in grass warblers.
- To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
- To make or cause to reel.
- To spin or revolve repeatedly.
- To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- To be in shock.
noun
- A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- A lively dance originating in Scotland; also, the music of this dance; often called a Scottish (or Scotch) reel.
- A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
- A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
- A shaky or unsteady gait.
adv
noun
- A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
- A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
verb
- To turn.
- To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- To turn by means of a crank.
- To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- To turn a crank.
- To be running at a high level of output or effort.
noun
- Synonym of methamphetamine.
- A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
- The penis.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a fit of temper or passion.
adj
verb
adv
noun
- A deal to swap goods or services.
- A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
- An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
- Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
- A contra dance.
prep
verb
- To relinquish; give back.
- To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
- To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
- To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
- To mull, ponder
- To produce, complete, or cycle through.
- To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
- To transfer.
- To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
verb
- To back out of something.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- To convert to Islam.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- To return to the possession of.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
noun
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- A convert to Islam.
verb
noun
adj
- (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
verb
- To turn in a different direction.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
noun
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- To screw back.
- To contort.
- To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
noun
- Salary, wages.
- An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A prison guard.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- Backspin.
- A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- A small packet of tobacco.
- A ship's propeller.
- An Archimedes screw.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- Rheumatism.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- An amphipod crustacean.
noun
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- The action of reverting something.
- The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- An estate which has been returned in this manner.
adj
- Able to be reversed.
- Capable of proceeding in either direction.
- Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
- Providing sufficient reason for a court decision to be overturned on appeal.
- Capable of returning to the original state.
- Able to be worn inside out.
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- prove to be in the result or end
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- result or end
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- bring forth
- put out or expel from a place
- come and gather for a public event
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- get up and out of bed
verb
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