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RETROGRADING

Definition: RETROGRADING

RETROGRADING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Retrograde

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RETROGRADING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Crosswords: RETROGRADING

English words defined with "RETROGRADING": Retrogradation, Retrogradingly. (references)

Familiar Quotations: RETROGRADING

Author	Quotation
James Freeman Clarke	We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translations: RETROGRADING

Language		Translations for "RETROGRADING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		倒退 (Retrograded). (various references)

German		zurückgehend (receding, regressing). (various references)

Korean		퇴행. (various references)

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

Anagrams: RETROGRADING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-g-i-n-o-r-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: denigrator, derogating.
	-3 letters: dogearing, garroting, gartering, regarding, regrading, regrating, retarding.
	-4 letters: adroiter, anterior, arointed, derating, draggier, dragonet, garoting, garroted, garroter, gorgerin, gradient, orangier, ordainer, ordering, ordinate, organdie, rationed, redating, reordain, torrider, treading.
	-5 letters: adoring, adorner, aneroid, angrier, antired, darting, deraign, detrain, diatron, doating, doggier, dragger, dragnet, drainer, earring, eroding, garoted, garring, garrote, gearing, genitor.
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Alternative Orthography: RETROGRADING

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

52 45 54 52 4F 47 52 41 44 49 4E 47

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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