retort
verb
[ rɪˈtɔːt ]
• say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry, or witty manner.
• "‘No need to be rude,’ retorted Isabel"
Similar:
answer,
reply,
respond,
say in response,
acknowledge,
return,
counter,
rejoin,
riposte,
retaliate,
hurl back,
fling back,
snap back,
round on someone,
come back,
• repay (an insult or injury).
• "it was now his time to retort the humiliation"
retort
noun
• a sharp, angry, or witty reply.
• "she opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort"
Similar:
answer,
reply,
response,
acknowledgement,
return,
counter,
rejoinder,
riposte,
sally,
retaliation,
comeback,
clapback,
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘hurl back an accusation or insult’): from Latin retort- ‘twisted back, cast back’, from the verb retorquere, from re- ‘in return’ + torquere ‘to twist’.
retort
noun
• a container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale.
• "gas was made by baking coal in airtight retorts"
retort
verb
• heat in a retort in order to separate or purify.
• "the raw shale is retorted at four crude oil works"
Origin:
early 16th century: from French retorte, from medieval Latin retorta, feminine past participle of retorquere ‘twist back’ (with reference to the long recurved neck of the laboratory container).
