List of antonyms from "retool" to antonyms from "return the compliment"
Discover our 280 antonyms available for the terms "retrospect, retrieve, retreat, return the compliment, retroflux, retracted" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Retool (8 antonyms)
- Retort (6 antonyms)
- Retrace (1 antonym)
- Retract (18 antonyms)
- Retracted (18 antonyms)
- Retraction (3 antonyms)
- Retread (47 antonyms)
- Retreat (15 antonyms)
- Retreated (13 antonyms)
- Retreating (13 antonyms)
- Retreats (15 antonyms)
- Retrench (15 antonyms)
- Retribute (4 antonyms)
- Retribution (3 antonyms)
- Retrieval (2 antonyms)
- Retrieve (13 antonyms)
- Retrocession (10 antonyms)
- Retroflux (10 antonyms)
- Retrograde (2 antonyms)
- Retrogress (2 antonyms)
- Retrogression (2 antonyms)
- Retrospect (3 antonyms)
- Return (32 antonyms)
- Return the compliment (25 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « retrench »
- verb save
- verb economize
- My distress was useless, my wishes to retrench our expenses ineffectual.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
- But there was only one way open to me at present—and that was to retrench my expenses.
- Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
- If he can retrench in pains without lessening his gains, be assured that he will do it.
- Extract from : « The Simple Life » by Charles Wagner
- But if you give him rope enough he will retrench you out of business.
- Extract from : « Sam Lambert and the New Way Store » by Unknown
- They were in reduced circumstances: they had come down to Hadleigh to retrench.
- Extract from : « Not Like Other Girls » by Rosa N. Carey
- Pavilliard and I contrive to retrench out of my other expenses.
- Extract from : « Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) » by Edward Gibbon
- The tendency of communities is to retrench on food, rather than on commodities or embellishments which they ought to go without.
- Extract from : « The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adlade de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr » by Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d Orlans; Marie Adelaide, of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy; and Madame de Maintenon
- But it is all theory; for when I came to the practical part I could retrench nothing.
- Extract from : « Shirley » by Charlotte Bront
- Dr. Tremayne decided to retrench and to keep only one man-servant.
- Extract from : « A Fortunate Term » by Angela Brazil
- Second, retrench all eating not necessary to health and comfort.
- Extract from : « Household Papers and Stories » by Harriet Beecher Stowe