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Verb retroflex has 2 senses

• retroflex(v = verb.motion) replicate - bend or turn backward; Array
is one way to bend, flex
Derived forms noun retroflection₃, noun retroflexion₃
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• retroflex(v = verb.communication) Array - articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"
is one way to articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out
Derived form noun retroflexion₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Adjective retroflex has 2 senses

• retroflex(s = adj.all) retroflexed - bent or curved backward; Array
• retroflex(s = adj.all) cacuminal - pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate; Array

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retroflex

accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arch, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, backslide, barytone, bend, bend back, bilabial, bow, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, cock, consonant, consonantal, continuant, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dome, dorsal, embow, epenthetic vowel, explosive, fall astern, fall behind, flat, flex, front, get behind, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, go backwards, go behind, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hook, hump, hunch, incurvate, incurve, inflect, intonated, jerk back, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lapse, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, loop, lose ground, low, manner of articulation, mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel, pull back, recede, recidivate, recurve, reflect, reflex, regress, relapse, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, round, rounded, sag, segmental phoneme, semivowel, slip back, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swag, sweep, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, turn, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, vault, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wind

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