RET

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: retted , retting

Present simple: I / you / we / they ret ... he / she / it rets

Past simple: retted

Past participle: retted

-ing form: retting

Meaning:

Place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "ret" is one way to...):

douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something