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retrude

retrude verb: to thrust back.

Verb

retrude (third-person singular simple present retrudes, present participle retruding, simple past and past participle retruded)

  1. To thrust back.
    • our Tincture of Philosophers is both included, and retruded1670, The Golden Calf, translation of original by Johann Friedrich Schweitzer

Forms of retrude

third-person singular presentretrudes
present participleretruding
past participleretruded
pastretruded

Origin of retrude

From Latin retrudere; re- + trudere (“to thrust”).

Questions about retrude

What does retrude mean?
Retrude means to thrust back.
What part of speech is retrude?
Retrude is a verb.
What is the past tense of retrude?
The past tense of retrude is retruded.

Words near retrude in the dictionary

  1. retroxiphoid
  2. retrozonular
  3. retrozygomatic
  4. retrozyme
  5. retrozymes
  6. retrude
  7. retruded
  8. retruding
  9. retrue
  10. retrued
  11. retrueing

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