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RETROCEDE

Definitions: RETROCEDE

RETROCEDE

Intransitive verb

1. To go back.

Transitive verb

1. To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: RETROCEDE

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: RETROCEDE

English words defined with "RETROCEDE": Retrocedent. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: RETROCEDE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
retrocede	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: RETROCEDE

Language		Translations for "RETROCEDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw). (various references)

Italian		retrocedere (degrade, demote, downgrade, recoil, retreat). (various references)

Manx		cooyl-ghleashaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		etrocederay

Romanian		retroceda. (various references)

Turkish		iade etmek (extradite, give back, rehabilitate, remand, restitute, restore, return, turn in), geri vermek (give back, hand back, pay back, refund, render, repay, restore, return, turn in), geri gitmek (go back, recede, regress, repass, retrograde). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: RETROCEDE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RETROCEDE": retroceded, retrocedes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"RETROCEDE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rectocele, retroceded, retroscend, retroscender. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: RETROCEDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-o-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: decreer, erected, erecter, erector, reerect.
	-3 letters: corder, decree, recede, recode, record, rector, retore, teredo.
	-4 letters: ceder, cered, coder, cored, corer, coted, credo, creed, crore, decor, deter, doter, erect, erode, erred, order, recto, retro, terce, treed, trode.
	-5 letters: cede, cere, cero, cete, code, coed, cord, core, cote, deco, deer, deet, dere, doer, dore, dorr, dote.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-o-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: redecorate, retroceded, retrocedes.
	+2 letters: decelerator, overreacted, reconverted, redecorated, redecorates.
	+3 letters: decelerators, overdecorate, overdirected, preconcerted, rencountered, retrospected, stockbreeder.
	+4 letters: catercornered, decerebration, electrodermal, electroformed, overcorrected, overdecorated, overdecorates, overprotected, overstretched, reconnoitered, reconsecrated, reencountered, reflectorized, stockbreeders.
	+5 letters: counterordered, decerebrations, diastereomeric, endarterectomy, interconverted, interelectrode, microelectrode, reconcentrated, reorchestrated.
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Alternative Orthography: RETROCEDE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 54 52 4F 43 45 44 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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