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    [Verb]  | "re*tort" | \ ri-ˈtȯrt \


    1: to pay or hurl back : return

    2: to make a reply to

    3: to say in reply


    Origin: circa 1505 ;

     Latin retortus, past participle of retorquēre, literally, to twist back, hurl back, from re- + torquēre to twist {mat|torture:1|};

    [Verb]  | "re*tort" | \ ri-ˈtȯrt \


    1: to treat (something, such as oil shale) by heating in a retort


    Origin: 1850 ;

    [Verb]  | "retorted" 


    1: to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction;


      * e.g., " ... when told she couldn't have it, she retorted, Fine, I didn't want it anyway! "





    [Verb]  | "retort" 


    1: to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction;


      * e.g., " ... when told she couldn't have it, she retorted, Fine, I didn't want it anyway! "





     [ "Retort" ]

    1: - verb

      * e.g.,  ... Andre- Yo, man. I think that bitch I was hittin' last night put the burn on me, man. 


     [ "Retort" ]

    2: 1) To reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to.

      * e.g.,  ... Archibald- Perhaps you should refrain, forhtwith, from engaging in intimate relations with your mother. (retort) 


     [ "Retort" ]

    3: 2) To return (an accusation, epithet, etc.) upon the person uttering it.

      * e.g.,  ... Andre- Fuck you, man. (also retort) 


     [ "Retort" ]

    4: 3) To answer (an argument or the like) by another to the contrary.

      * e.g.,  ... blub blub blub (also also retort) 


     [ "Retort" ]

    5: - noun

      * e.g.,  ... fwooooooosh! (also also also retort) 


     [ "Retort" ]

    6: 4) A severe, incisive, or witty reply, esp. one that counters a first speaker's statement, argument, etc.


     [ "Retort" ]

    7: 5) A glass device used for distillation or dry distillation in chemistry.


     [ "Retort" ]

    8: 6) A furnace used for cremating dead bodies.


     [ "Retort" ]

    9: 7) An industrial pressure cooker.

     [ "Retorted" ]

    1: Someone who is absolutely awful at comebacks, reputations, and retorts. Often times their replies are met with awkward stares and silence.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: you have no chill Bill: Yeah, well... YOUR MOM! Bob: Are you retorted? 

     [ "Retort" ]

    1:  A metaphysical wrestler A show on the YouTube channel Balboa Dean Physically Challenged Wrestler

      * e.g.,  ... He's so small and weak, he should wrestle in retort. 

     [ "Retorted" ]

    1: When someone is so retarded that they become retorted

      * e.g.,  ... Ryan tried to be smart by calling others retarded who are actually not, that now everyone knows he’s retorted 

     [ "Retorted" ]

    1: say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner.

      * e.g.,  ... "“No need to be rude,” retorted Isabel" 

     [ "retort" ]

    1: to display an example and/or to repeat.

      * e.g.,  ... well, allow me to retort! 

     [ "Retort" ]

    1: A Retort is when you:

      * e.g.,  ... Luke stop retorting!! 


     [ "Retort" ]

    2:  Fart


     [ "Retort" ]

    3:  Suck your fart back up


     [ "Retort" ]

    4:  And Fart again

     [ "Retort" ]

    1: For when you don’t want to say retard or you’re too polite to say it

      * e.g.,  ... Oh I’m such a retort 

     [ "drudge retort" ]

    1: A political website run by a failed web publisher, populated almost exclusively by homebound seniors and pathetic trolls. The regulars argue about the same 5 topics on a daily basis, fleck spittle onto their computer screens, and generally waste their worthless lives.

      * e.g.,  ... I haven't argued about abortion in a while, think I'll visit the Drudge Retort. 

     [ "Retort Tardiness" ]

    1: A common syndrome wherein the speaker often remembers something clever to say about 10 minutes after the conversation has ended

      * e.g.,  ... "The boy said 'you git' to the bully, but due to his retort tardiness, later reflected it would have been more accurate to have said 'you misproportioned cankerous cretacean'" 

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