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Definition of Retrenches
1. retrench [v] - See also: retrench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrenches
Literary usage of Retrenches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Real Life in Ireland: Or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles and by Pierce Egan, Henry Thomas Alken, William Heath (1904)
"His extravagance—Sells his stud, and retrenches. I HATE singing, said SIR SHAWN,
more than I do being called upon to do so; but as you seem very much ..."
2. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries by Victor Plarr (1899)
"... 1870; "Etudes sur la Fortification des Capitales et 1'investissement des Camps
retrenches," 1 vol. gr. in 8vo, 1873; "La Defense des Etats et les Camps ..."
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