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- Dictionaryre·tort/rəˈtôrt/
verb
- 1. say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner: "“No need to be rude,” retorted Isabel"
- 2. repay (an insult or injury): archaic "it was now his time to retort the humiliation"
noun
- 1. a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark: "she opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort"
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