retorted's Usage Examples:

Wallis having been betrayed originally by his fatal cleverness into the pettiest carping at words, Hobbes had retorted in kind, and then it became a high duty in the other to defend his Latin with great parade of learning and give fresh provocation.

"Two kids," she retorted desperately.

An enemy defined Comtism as Catholicism minus Christianity, to which an able champion retorted by calling it Catholicism plus Science.

"Appreciate the chivalry," Katie retorted.

"If you keep mentioning it, it won't be an accident next time," Pierre retorted, shooting her a look in the rearview mirror.

Protestantism centred - or was by Catholics supposed to centre - in a mysterious " right of private judgment "; the council accordingly retorted by hymning the praises of obedience, of submitting to authority and never thinking for oneself.

"Because I know how alpha males like you work," she retorted.

"Fat chance," he retorted.

"I never thought I'd hear you say that," she retorted dryly, and then realized she had nothing on but the thin hospital gown.

"I just meant I can fix anyone who decides to brawl," Bianca retorted.

Not fearing for my life is a total turn on, she retorted.

Do you need a strainer or a frying pan?The amalgam is dipped out from the bowl into a canvas bag (the strainer), to separate the excess of the quicksilver from the pasty amalgam, which is then retorted and melted.

Synonyms:

return, reply, riposte, rejoin, come back, repay, respond, answer,

Antonyms:

take, outgo, clear, stay in place, volley,