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    RET

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: retted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, retting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they ret  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it rets  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: retted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: retted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: retting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissueplay

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "ret" is one way to...):

    douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

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