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- responsible adjective (responsible, more responsible, most responsible)
If you are responsible for something, it is your job or duty to look after it or do it. - rest noun (the rest; a rest, rests); verb (rest, rests, rested, resting)
The rest is what is left over after some part has been taken or used. - restart verb (restart, restarts, restarted, restarting); noun (a restart)
1) To restart means to start something again after it has stopped. 2) To restart a computer or phone means to switch it off and on again. - restate verb (restate, restates, restated, restating)
To restate something is to say it again, often in different, clearer words. - restatement noun (a restatement, restatements)
Saying or writing something again, often in different or clearer words. - restaurant noun (a restaurant, restaurants)
1) A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served there. - restful adjective (restful; more restful, most restful)
1) Calm and peaceful, helping you to relax. 2) Giving good rest, such as restful sleep. - resting verb (present participle of rest: rest, rests, rested, resting); adjective (resting, not resting)
lying down, sleeping or relaxing to get back strength. - restitution noun (restitution — uncountable)
Restitution is giving back something that was stolen or lost to its owner, or paying for damage you caused. - restive adjective
1) Unable to keep still, and restless. 2) Unwilling to be controlled, impatient, and difficult to manage. - restless adjective (restless, more restless)
Restless means unable to keep still or relax, because you are bored, worried or full of energy. - restlessly adverb (restlessly; more restlessly)
1) Restlessly means in a way that cannot keep still or calm: moving about because you feel uneasy. - restlessness noun (no plural)
1) Restlessness is a feeling of being unable to keep still or calm, often because you are worried or waiting for something. - restoration noun (restoration, restorations)
Restoration is repairing something old or damaged so it looks or works as it did before. - restorative adjective (restorative); noun (a restorative, restoratives — old)
Something restorative makes you feel healthy, strong or calm again. - restore verb (restore, restores, restored, restoring)
To restore something means to repair it so that it looks or works as it did when it was new. - restorer noun (a restorer, restorers)
A restorer is a person whose job is to repair old paintings, furniture, buildings or objects so they look as they used to. - restrain verb (restrain, restrains, restrained, restraining)
To restrain someone or something is to hold them back or stop them from moving or doing something, often by force. - restraint noun (a restraint, restraints; also uncountable)
A restraint is something that holds a person or thing back, like a seat belt or strap. - restrict verb (restrict, restricts, restricted, restricting); noun restriction
To restrict means to keep something within a limit or stop it from growing beyond a certain size or amount. - restriction noun (a restriction, restrictions)
1) A restriction is a rule that limits what you can do. 2) Restriction is the act of limiting something. - restroom noun (a restroom, restrooms)
1) (US, Canada, euphemism) A toilet in a public place like a shop, restaurant or school. - restructure verb (restructure, restructures, restructured, restructuring)
To restructure is to organise something in a new way, like a company, team or plan. - restructuring noun (restructuring, restructurings); verb (present participle of restructure: restructure, restructures, restructured, restructuring)
changing the way an organisation, plan or thing is built or organised. - result noun (result, results); verb (result, results, resulted, resulting)
A result is what you get at the end, like the answer of a sum. - resultant adjective (resultant); noun (a resultant)
Happening as a result of something: the storm and the resultant floods. - resume verb (resume, resumes, resumed, resuming); noun (résumé, a résumé, résumés)
To start again after a pause: the lesson resumed after break. - resumption noun (resumption — usually singular)
Starting something again after it has stopped. - resurrection noun (the Resurrection; a resurrection, resurrections)
The Resurrection is the rising of Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, which Christians celebrate at Easter. - resuscitated verb, past form of resuscitate (resuscitate, resuscitates, resuscitated, resuscitating)
To resuscitate is to bring someone back to consciousness or life after they seem dead. - resuscitation noun (resuscitation; uncountable)
Bringing someone back to life or to consciousness when their heart or breathing has stopped. - retail noun, uncountable (retail); verb (retail, retails, retailed, retailing); adjective/adverb (retail price, sell retail)
Selling goods to the public in shops or online, usually in small amounts, for them to use. - retailer noun (a retailer, retailers)
1) A person or business that sells goods to the public, such as a shop, supermarket or online store. - retain verb (retain, retains, retained, retaining)
To retain is to keep something and not lose it or give it away. - retainer noun (retainers)
1) A retainer is an old word for a servant or follower who serves a lord or noble family. (old use) - retake verb (retake, retakes, retook, retaken, retaking); noun (a retake, retakes)
To retake a test or exam is to take it again, often because you failed or want a better mark. - retaliate verb (retaliate, retaliates, retaliated, retaliating)
1) To do something bad back to someone who has hurt or attacked you; to hit back. - retaliation noun (retaliation — usually uncountable; a retaliation)
1) Doing something bad to someone because they did something bad to you; hitting back; revenge. - retaliatory adjective (retaliatory)
Done to hit back or pay someone back for something bad they did. - retard verb (retard, retards, retarded, retarding — said ri-TARD, formal); noun (a retard — said REE-tard, offensive slur)
To slow down or delay something: to retard growth, fire-retardant material. - retch verb (retch, retches, retched, retching)
To retch is to strain the throat and stomach as if about to be sick, without being sick. - retell verb (retell, retells, retold, retelling); noun retelling
1) To retell a story is to tell it again, often in your own words. 2) A retelling is a new version of an old story. - retention noun (retention — usually uncountable)
Retention is keeping something, or keeping it from being lost. - reticence noun (reticence; uncountable)
The habit of not saying much, or of keeping your feelings and thoughts to yourself. - reticulate adjective (reticulate — science, formal); verb (reticulate, reticulates, reticulated, reticulating — rare)
Reticulate means having a pattern of lines crossing each other like a net, as in the veins of a leaf («reticulate venation»). - retina noun (a retina, retinas)
1) The retina is the thin layer at the back of the inside of the eye that senses light and sends messages to the brain. - retinue noun (retinues)
1) A retinue is the group of people who travel with and serve an important person, such as a king or an emperor. - retire verb (retire, retires, retired, retiring)
To stop working, usually because you are older. - retired adjective (retired); verb past form of retire (retire, retires, retired, retiring)
Retired describes a person who has stopped working, usually because they are older. - retirement noun (retirement, retirements)
Retirement is the time when a person stops working for good, usually because they are older. - retiring adjective (retiring); also the -ing form of retire (retire, retires, retired, retiring)
Adjective: shy and quiet; not liking to be noticed: a retiring person. - retort verb (retort, retorts, retorted, retorting); noun (a retort, retorts)
To answer quickly and sharply, often in an angry or clever way. - retrace verb (retrace, retraces, retraced, retracing)
1) To retrace your steps is to go back along the same way you came. - retract verb (retract, retracts, retracted, retracting)
To retract is to take back something you have said or agreed to. - retractable adjective (retractable)
1) Able to be pulled back in or folded away when not in use. 2) Describing something that can slide or roll back into a case or body. - retracted adjective (retracted); verb, past form of «retract» (retract, retracts, retracted, retracting)
1) Pulled back in: a cat with retracted claws. 2) (verb, past) Took back something said or written, admitting it was wrong: "He retracted… - retraction noun (a retraction, retractions; also uncountable)
A statement saying that something you said or printed before was wrong, taking it back. - retrain verb (retrain, retrains, retrained, retraining)
To retrain is to learn new skills, usually for a different job. - retreat verb (retreat, retreats, retreated, retreating); noun (a retreat, retreats)
To move back or away, especially from danger or an enemy. - retreated verb, past of retreat (retreat, retreats, retreated, retreating)
Moved back or away, especially from danger or an enemy. - retribution noun (no plural)
1) Retribution is punishment that is deserved, given as payment for a wrong that has been done. - retrieval noun (retrieval — uncountable)
Retrieval is getting something back, finding it and bringing it back from where it was («the retrieval of the lost boat»). - retrieve verb (retrieve, retrieves, retrieved, retrieving)
To get something back from where it was left or lost: Retrieve the ball from the garden. - retriever noun (a retriever, retrievers)
1) A retriever is a kind of dog bred to fetch and bring back birds that hunters have shot, for example the golden retriever and the… - retro adjective (retro); noun (retro — uncountable)
Copying or looking like the style of the past, especially the 1950s to 1990s. - retrograde adjective (retrograde); verb (retrograde — rare); noun (retrograde — rare)
Going backwards, or getting worse instead of better. - retrospect noun (retrospect — mainly in the phrase «in retrospect»)
1) «In retrospect»: when you think about something afterwards, looking back on it, often seeing it differently. - retrospection noun (retrospection; uncountable)
1) Thinking back about past events or about your own past. 2) Looking back to judge something after it has happened. - return verb (return, returns, returned, returning); noun (a return, returns); adjective (return — as in a return ticket)
To return is to come back or go back to a place. - returnable adjective (returnable)
Able to be given or sent back, often for money back: «returnable bottles». - reuben proper noun (Reuben) — a name; noun (a Reuben — USA, a sandwich)
1) (a name) Reuben is a boy's name. 2) (Bible) Reuben was the eldest son of Jacob in the Bible and gave his name to one of the twelve… - reunification noun (reunification — usually uncountable)
Reunification is joining together again something that had been split, especially a country that was divided into two. - reunion noun (a reunion, reunions)
A meeting of people who have not seen each other for a long time. - reunite verb (reunite, reunites, reunited, reuniting)
1) To bring people together again, or come together again, after being apart. 2) To join parts or groups together again. - reusable adjective (reusable)
1) Able to be used again, many times, instead of being thrown away. - reuse verb (reuse, reuses, reused, reusing); noun (reuse — uncountable)
To reuse something means to use it again instead of throwing it away, either for the same job or for a new one. - rev verb (rev, revs, revved, revving)
To rev an engine is to make it run faster by pressing the accelerator. - reveal verb (reveal, reveals, revealed, revealing); noun (a reveal — informal)
1) To reveal something is to show something that was hidden. 2) To reveal something is to tell a secret or a fact that people did not know. - revel verb (revel, revels, revelled, revelling; US reveled) ; noun (revels)
1) To revel is to take part in noisy fun such as feasting, drinking and dancing. 2) To revel in something is to enjoy it very much. - revelation noun (a revelation, revelations); proper noun (Revelation — a book of the Bible)
A surprising fact that is made known, often a secret. - reveller noun (revellers)
1) A reveller is a person who joins in noisy partying, dancing and drinking. - revelry noun (no plural)
1) Revelry is noisy, happy partying with dancing, feasting and music. - revenge noun (revenge, no plural); verb (to take revenge, to get revenge; revenge oneself — formal)
Revenge is hurting or punishing someone because they hurt you or someone you care about. - revengeful adjective (more revengeful, most revengeful)
1) Revengeful means wanting to pay back someone who has hurt or wronged you. - revenue noun (revenue, revenues)
1) (formal) The money that a business or government gets in, before costs are taken away; income. - reverberate verb (reverberate, reverberates, reverberated, reverberating)
A sound reverberates when it bounces back off walls or hills again and again, making a long echo. - reverberating adjective (reverberating); the -ing form of the verb reverberate (reverberate, reverberates, reverberated, reverberating)
Of a sound: echoing again and again, loudly, filling a space. - revere verb (revere, reveres, revered, revering)
To revere someone or something is to respect and admire them very deeply. - reverence noun (no plural)
Deep respect and honour shown to someone, such as a parent or a holy person. - reverend adjective (no comparative); noun (the Reverend)
1) Deserving deep respect, as a wise or holy person does. 2) A title for a priest or minister: «the Reverend Smith» or «reverend father». - reverently adverb
In a respectful, worshipful way, as if in a holy place. - reverie noun (plural reveries)
A daydream: a state of being lost in one's own thoughts, often pleasant. - revers noun (a revers, plural revers — rare fashion word); often a typo or fragment of «reverse»
A revers: the part of a coat or jacket collar or cuff that is turned back so the inside shows, like a lapel (a fashion and sewing word). - reversal noun (a reversal, reversals)
A reversal is a change to the opposite direction, order or result. - reverse verb (reverse, reverses, reversed, reversing); noun (the reverse, reverse); adjective (reverse)
To reverse means to go backwards, especially in a car. - reversed verb form of reverse (reverse, reverses, reversed, reversing); adjective (reversed)
Reversed is the past form of «reverse»: drove backwards, or turned something the other way or to the opposite. - reversible adjective (reversible)
1) Able to be changed back to how it was before. 2) (clothes) Able to be worn either side out: a reversible jacket. 3) (science) A… - revert verb (revert, reverts, reverted, reverting); noun (a revert — rare)
To go back to an earlier state, habit or way of doing things. - reverting verb, -ing form of «revert» (revert, reverts, reverted, reverting)
Going back to an earlier state, habit or way of behaving. - review noun (review, reviews); verb (review, reviews, reviewed, reviewing)
A review is a second look at something to check or remember it; in school, going over a lesson again.
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