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    re·tort
    [rəˈtôrt]
    verb
    retort (verb) · retorts (third person present) · retorted (past tense) · retorted (past participle) · retorting (present participle)
    1. say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner:
      "“No need to be rude,” retorted Isabel" · "he retorted that this was nonsense" · "I resisted the urge to retort"
    2. archaic
      repay (an insult or injury):
      "it was now his time to retort the humiliation"
      • turn (an insult or accusation) back on the person who has issued it:
        "he was resolute to retort the charge of treason on his foes"
      • use (an opponent's argument) against them:
        "the answer they make to us may very easily be retorted"
    noun
    retort (noun) · retorts (plural noun)
    1. a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark:
      "she opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort"
    Origin
    late 15th century (in the sense ‘hurl back an accusation or insult’): from Latin retort- ‘twisted back, cast back’, from the verb retorquere, from re- ‘in return’ + torquere ‘to twist’.
    re·tort
    [rəˈtôrt]
    noun
    retort (noun) · retorts (plural noun)
    1. a container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale:
      "gas was made by baking coal in airtight retorts"
      • a glass container with a long neck, used in distilling liquids and other chemical operations:
        "a laboratory full of bubbling retorts and crackling electrical equipment"
    verb
    retort (verb) · retorts (third person present) · retorted (past tense) · retorted (past participle) · retorting (present participle)
    1. heat in a retort in order to separate or purify:
      "the raw shale is retorted at four crude oil works"
    Origin
    early 16th century: from French retorte, from medieval Latin retorta, feminine past participle of retorquere ‘twist back’ (with reference to the long recurved neck of the laboratory container).
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    verb
    1. say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner:
      answer
      reply
      respond
      acknowledge
      return
      counter
      rejoin
      riposte
      retaliate
      snap back
      come back
      say in response
      hurl back
      fling back
      round on someone
    noun
    1. a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark:
      answer
      reply
      response
      acknowledgment
      return
      counter
      rejoinder
      riposte
      sally
      retaliation
     

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    What is another word for retort?
    Some common synonyms of retort are answer, rejoinder, reply, and response. While all these words mean "something spoken, written, or done in return," retort implies a reaction to an implicit or explicit charge, criticism, or attack which contains a countercharge or counterattack. When can answer be used instead of retort?

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    What does answer retort mean?
    answer, response, reply, rejoinder, retort mean something spoken, written, or done in return. answer implies the satisfying of a question, demand, call, or need. response may imply a quick or spontaneous reaction to a person or thing that serves as a stimulus. reply often suggests a thorough response to all issues, points, or questions raised.

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    What does retort mean in chemistry?
    See answer. re•tort2 (ri tôrt′ ), n. a vessel, commonly a glass bulb with a long neck bent downward, used for distilling or decomposing substances by heat. Chemistry a refractory chamber, generally cylindrically shaped, within which some substance, as ore or coal, is heated as part of a smelting or manufacturing process.

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    How does the noun retort differ from other similar words?
    Some common synonyms of retort are answer, rejoinder, reply, and response. While all these words mean "something spoken, written, or done in return," retort implies a reaction to an implicit or explicit charge, criticism, or attack which contains a countercharge or counterattack.

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    What does riposte retort mean?
    a quick, angry or humorous reply synonym rejoinder, riposte She bit back (= stopped herself from making) a sharp retort. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! a closed bottle with a long narrow bent spout that is used in a laboratory for heating chemicals

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    Where did retort Come from?
    The earliest known use of the noun retort is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for retort is from 1527, in a translation by Laurence Andrewe, printer and translator. retort is a borrowing from German. Etymons: German retort.

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