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RETROGRADED

Definition: RETROGRADED

RETROGRADED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Retrograde

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RETROGRADED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)


Modern Translations: RETROGRADED

Language Translations for "RETROGRADED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

倒退 (Retrograding). (various references)

   

German

  

ging zurück (regressed). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

퇴행하는. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etrogradedray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: RETROGRADED

Misspellings

"RETROGRADED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: retrogade. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: RETROGRADED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-o-r-r-r-t"

-1 letter: retrograde.

-2 letters: derogated.

-3 letters: degrader, derogate, dogeared, garroted, garroter, gartered, regarded, regraded, regrated, retarded, retarder.

-4 letters: degrade, derated, dredger, garoted, garrote, goateed, greater, ordered, orderer, redated, regrade, regrate, reorder, retread, treaded, treader.

-5 letters: adored, adorer, agreed, darted, darter, deader, dearer, deodar, derate, doated, dodger, dogear, dotage, dotard, dragee, dredge, ergate, eroded, gadder, garote, garred, garret.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RETROGRADED


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

52 45 54 52 4F 47 52 41 44 45 44

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)

.-.    .    -    .-.    ---    --.    .-.    .-    -..    .    -..

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

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