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Definition of Retrogrades
1. retrograde [v] - See also: retrograde
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogrades
Literary usage of Retrogrades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"cavity of the tusks, he states, is in like manner filled up by the secretion of
the pulp which retrogrades in the course of its absorption, and hence the ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"After the tide has turned and the slow current commenced, the sewage will still
continue to sink in the slack, retrogrades, and eddie along shore, ..."
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