Retroflex: alternatives and connections

Alt. of Backwards

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Alt. of Backwards

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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Saw.

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The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

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The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

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Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.

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To reply.

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Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

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