0 past simple and past participle of retort --
1 to answer someone quickly in an angry or funny way: --
[ + speech ] "That doesn't concern you!" she retorted.
The first retorted that the second should fly off his ground.
His brother retorted that the boats would be delivered in the morning regardless of the threatening message.
The stork retorted by inviting the fox to supper and giving him his sustenance in a long-necked vessel from which the fox was unable to get anything.
When contacted, the firework company that had made the delivery retorted that, as far as they were concerned, the purchaser could have had 20 tonnes had he so wanted.
We might have retorted, when at the beginning of his term of office, he said he had found the forces overstretched, that our predictions had come out right.
The company retorted by putting the advertisement on the sails of a boat, but the vigilantes boarded the boat, bored a hole in it and sank it.
It may be retorted that it is an unpopular measure, and that there is no great enthusiasm for it amongst any section of the industry.
I retorted that professional writers tend to he frequent, if rather laborious, speakers, and that no one ever said that they spoke particularly well.
