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RET (retted, retting)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ret mean?
• RET (verb)
The verb RET has 1 sense:
1. place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
Familiarity information: RET used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they ret ... he / she / it rets
Past simple: retted
Past participle: retted
-ing form: retting
Past simple: retted
Past participle: retted
-ing form: retting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "ret" is one way to...):
douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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