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retrocede

retrocede verb: to grant back.

Verb

retrocede (third-person singular simple present retrocedes, present participle retroceding, simple past and past participle retroceded)

  1. (transitive) To grant back.
    • to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor
  2. (intransitive) To go back.
    • Hospitals retrenched in the '30s while the general practitioners retroceded into a bygone era.1994, David F Drake, Reforming the health care market: an interpretive economic history

retrocede meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

retrocede in Tamil

பின்னோக்கிச் செல், திரும்பச்செல்

retrocede in Urdu

پیچھے ہٹنا

retrocede in Kannada

ಹಿಂಚಲಿಸು, ಹಿಮ್ಮೆಟ್ಟು, ಹಿಂದುವರಿ, ಮರು ಸ್ವಾಧೀನಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಒಳಸರಿ, ಅಂತರ್ವ್ಯಾಪಿಸು

Forms of retrocede

third-person singular presentretrocedes
present participleretroceding
past participleretroceded
pastretroceded

Origin of retrocede

Ultimately from Latin retrōcēdere, from retrō- (“back, backward”) + cēdere (“to go, go back, give, return, etc.”). Equivalent to retro- + cede.

Questions about retrocede

What does retrocede mean?
Retrocede means to grant back.
What is retrocede in Tamil?
Retrocede in Tamil is பின்னோக்கிச் செல், திரும்பச்செல். See Retrocede meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is retrocede?
Retrocede is a verb.
What is the past tense of retrocede?
The past tense of retrocede is retroceded.

Words near retrocede in the dictionary

  1. retrocausation
  2. retrocausative
  3. retrocaval
  4. retrocecal
  5. retrocecally
  6. retrocede
  7. retroceded
  8. retrocedence
  9. retrocedences
  10. retrocedent
  11. retrocedes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: retrocede (page history and authors); retrocede (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); retrocede (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); retrocede (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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