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retort Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to answer someone quickly in an angry or funny way:
- [ + speech ] "That doesn't concern you!" she retorted.
1 a quick answer that is angry or funny:
- "I'm going to tell him," said Max. "Just you try!" came the retort.
2 to make a quick answer that is often amusing and sometimes expresses anger or annoyance:
- When the telephone operator called him boy, he retorted, "That’s Mr. Boy to you!"

Gas production in continuous vertical retorts costs in capital £48 per kilowatt equivalent and in oil reforming plants £8.
Of course, that naturally caused rather obvious retorts about right hands losing their cunning.
He felt this so keenly that he retorted with a flat denial.
Steps, however, are being taken to erect batteries of retorts at a limited number of colliery centres where the conditions are suitable.
His remarks about fatuity were wrong and unjust and could be retorted on his own comments on the matter.
Once the compressors and retorts are available they can be used for either purpose.
They have retorted, also with some justification, that closing tax loopholes effectively places extra taxes on business.
In the case of shale oil there are pits which are worked entirely for the production of coal to heat the retorts.