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retrahent

retrahent adjective: serving to draw something backward.

Adjective

retrahent (not comparable)

  1. Serving to draw something backward.

Questions about retrahent

What does retrahent mean?
Retrahent means serving to draw something backward.
What part of speech is retrahent?
Retrahent is an adjective.

Words near retrahent in the dictionary

  1. retraditionalize
  2. retraditionalized
  3. retraditionalizes
  4. retraditionalizing
  5. retrahens
  6. retrahent
  7. retraict
  8. retraicted
  9. retraicting
  10. retraicts
  11. retrain

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