retorted
past simple and past participle ofretort
retort
verb[T]
uk/rɪˈtɔːt/us/rɪˈtɔːrt/toanswersomeonequicklyin anangryorfunnyway:
[+ speech]"That doesn'tconcernyou!" she retorted.
Synonyms
answer(REACT)
rejoin
reply
Compare
respond
to answer someone
- answer"Thank you", she answered.
- replyThe man replied that something was missing.
- respondWe aim to respond to all enquiries within five working days.
- reactHe reacted positively to the proposal.
- get back toI'll look into it and get back to you.
- explain"What happened?" she asked. - "There's no time to explain!" he said.
Answering & responding
- acknowledgment
- affirmative
- affirmatively
- answer
- answer (someone) back
- clap
- clap back
- clapback
- counter
- counterattack
- cricketsidiom
- defensively
- field
- non-response
- non-responsive
- respondent
- response
- RSVP
- thank you
- whataboutism
Examplesofretorted
retorted
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Heretortedthat inequality was a necessity, because it was an incentive to work harder, but was also natural.
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Second, it may beretortedthat it is the strong, not the truth-functional, reading of "if" that is an artifice.
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The envoysretortedthat this was inadequate.
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He felt this so keenly that heretortedwith a flat denial.
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His remarks about fatuity were wrong and unjust and could beretortedon his own comments on the matter.
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They haveretorted, also with some justification, that closing tax loopholes effectively places extra taxes on business.
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It may beretortedthat, if this is so, the new clause would do no harm.
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Iretortedthat professional writers tend to he frequent, if rather laborious, speakers, and that no one ever said that they spoke particularly well.
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It may beretortedthat it is an unpopular measure, and that there is no great enthusiasm for it amongst any section of the industry.
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The companyretortedby putting the advertisement on the sails of a boat, but the vigilantes boarded the boat, bored a hole in it and sank it.
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We might haveretorted, when at the beginning of his term of office, he said he had found the forces overstretched, that our predictions had come out right.
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When contacted, the firework company that had made the deliveryretortedthat, as far as they were concerned, the purchaser could have had 20 tonnes had he so wanted.
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The storkretortedby inviting the fox to supper and giving him his sustenance in a long-necked vessel from which the fox was unable to get anything.
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His brotherretortedthat the boats would be delivered in the morning regardless of the threatening message.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The firstretortedthat the second should fly off his ground.
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