retorted
past form of “retort” — answer back
An inflected form of retort · past form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,869 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,750 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- answer back also: come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
retorted in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Shall Manassas and Chickamauga be retorted for Chattanooga and Richmond?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 2
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The signora retorted: "I can't follow the action of your mind a bit."
Vittoria — Volume 5 · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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Unluckily she retorted with some playful parry that just lacked the saving quality of true resentment.
The Cavalier · George Washington Cable · Chapter 3
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He retorted by slamming the door, and I did not see him for two or three days.
The Treasure-Train · Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve · Chapter 3
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Vuillet gallantly retorted by terming the Republican “a monster glutted with blood whose ignoble purveyor was the guillotine.”
The Fortune of the Rougons · Émile Zola · Chapter 3