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Definitions of retrograde
  1. adjective
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

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  2. verb
    go back over
    "retrograde arguments"

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  3. verb
    move back
    "The glacier retrogrades"

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  4. verb
    get worse or fall back to a previous condition

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  5. adjective
    going from better to worse
  6. verb
    move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
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  7. verb
    move in a direction contrary to the usual one
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  8. adjective
    moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
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  9. adjective
    of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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  10. adjective
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

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  11. verb
    go back over
    "retrograde arguments"

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  12. verb
    move back
    "The glacier retrogrades"

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    get worse or fall back to a previous condition

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  14. adjective
    going from better to worse
  15. verb
    move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
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  16. verb
    move in a direction contrary to the usual one
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  17. adjective
    moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
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  18. adjective
    of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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Definition that contains retrograde
  • venus the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early ``morning star' or an ``evening star'
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