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Meaning of retruse | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Thrust backward; retruding.
  2. abstruse
    obsolete

Examples

“1662, Henry More, Preface to A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings I have a sense of something in me while I thus speak, which I must confess is of so retruse a nature that I want a name for it, unless I should adventure to term it”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

retrusible retrusive retted retunable returnable returned

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