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RETUND

Definition: RETUND

RETUND

Transitive verb

1. To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Retund \Re*tund"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression retundere, retusum; prefix re- re- tundere to beat.]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: RETUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: turned.

Words within the letters "d-e-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: nuder, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, under.

-2 letters: dent, duet, dune, dunt, dure, durn, nerd, nude, nurd, rend, rent, rude, rued, rune, runt, tend, tern, true, tune, turd, turn, unde.

-3 letters: den, due, dun, end, ern, net, nut, red, ret, rue, run, rut, ted, ten, tun, urd, urn.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, et, ne.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: daunter, denture, grunted, intrude, natured, prudent, retuned, rundlet, tenured, thunder, trudgen, trundle, trunked, turdine, undrest, unrated, untired, untread, untried, uptrend.

 

+2 letters: breadnut, cornuted, daunters, denature, dentural, dentures, deuteron, drunkest, durndest, fortuned, gruntled, indurate, intruded, intruder, intrudes, inturned, neutered, nurtured, reinduct, retinued, returned, reunited, roundest, roundlet, rudiment, ruinated, rundlets, sederunt, strunted, subtrend, thunders, thundery, tonsured, transude, trounced, truanted, trudgens, trudgeon, trundled, trundler, trundles, turbaned, uncrated, underact, underate, undercut, undereat, underlet, underlit, underset, undertax, undertow, undreamt, unmitred, unparted, unrented, unrested, unrooted, unrusted, unsorted, unthread, untidier, untraced, untreads, untrendy, unturned, uptrends, upturned, urinated, ventured.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETUND


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

52 45 54 55 4E 44

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

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