REGRADE

Definition: REGRADE

REGRADE

Intransitive verb

1. To retire; to go back.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regression	Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: REGRADE

Specialty definitions using "REGRADE": buyer, head, BUYER, TOBACCO, HEAD ♦ circuit rider, circuit walker. (references)

"REGRADE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REGRADE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "REGRADE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		再分类. (various references)

French		reclassement différé (held regrade). (various references)

Pig Latin		egraderay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "REGRADE": regraded, regrades. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-r"
	-1 letter: agreed, dearer, dragee, garred, geared, grader, reader, reared, redear, regard, regear, reread.
	-2 letters: agree, darer, drear, eager, eagre, eared, edger, erred, grade, greed, raged, ragee, rared.
	-3 letters: aged, agee, ager, dare, dear, deer, dere, drag, dree, dreg, edge, egad, eger, gaed, gear, geed, grad, gree, rage, rare, read, rear, rede, reed.
	-4 letters: age, are.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-r-r"
	+1 letter: degrader, gardener, garnered, gartered, raggeder, reargued, redargue, regarded, regeared, regraded, regrades, regrated.
	+2 letters: degraders, degreaser, demurrage, gardeners, garderobe, germander, grenadier, recharged, redargued, redargues, regrafted, regranted, rereading.
	+3 letters: adrenergic, degreasers, demurrages, garderobes, gendarmery, germanders, greensward, grenadiers, intergrade, overgrazed, rearranged, redreaming, reengraved, regardless, regathered, rereadings, retargeted, retreading, retrograde, ringleader, strangered.
	+4 letters: demographer, deprogramed, disregarded, forgathered, gendarmerie, gerrymander, gingerbread, gradiometer, greenswards, harbingered, hemorrhaged, intergraded, intergrades, overcharged, prearranged, regenerated, regularized, rehardening, remortgaged, reorganized, reprogramed, reregulated, respreading, rethreading, retrograded, retrogrades, ringleaders, transgender, undercharge.
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