Retain, v. a.
- 1. Hold, keep, reserve, withhold, preserve, detain, keep in possession.
- 2. Engage (by fee paid), hire, employ, keep in pay.
Retainer, n.
- 1. Attendant, adherent, dependant, follower, hanger-on, servant.
- 2. Retaining fee, preliminary fee.
Retainment, n. Retention.
Retaliate, v. a. Return (by giving like for like, as an injury), repay, requite, revenge, avenge.
Retaliate, v. n. Take revenge, return like for like, give quid pro quo, give a Roland for an Oliver.
Retaliation, n. Requital (of evil), reprisal, retribution, repayment, revenge, punishment.
Retaliatory, a. Retaliative, revenging, vindictive.
Retard, v. a.
- 1. Check, obstruct, clog, impede, hinder.
- 2. Delay, defer, postpone, adjourn, procrastinate, put off.
Retch, v. n. Heave, strain, keck, gag, try to vomit.
Retention, n.
- 1. Reservation, holding, keeping, retaining, detention.
- 2. Reserve, restraint.
- 3. Memory, remembrance.
Retentive, a. Tenacious.
Reticence, n. Reserve, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness.
Reticent, a. Reserved, taciturn, silent (by habit), uncommunicative.
Reticular, Reticulated, a. Meshy, retiform.
Reticulation, n. Net-work.