retraité, -e, n. and adj., one who is pensioned off, superannuated; on the retired list. Officier —; officer on the retired list. Un —; one who is pensioned off, a pensioner.
retranchement (-trānsh-mān), n.m., retrenchment, abridging, suppression; curtailment; (milit.) retrenchment, intrenchment. Forcer quelqu’un dans ses —s; to storm any one in his stronghold.
retrancher, v.a., to retrench, to curtail, to cut short; to cut off, to strike off, to erase; (arith.) to subtract; to take away, to abridge; to suppress; to deduct; to take away (from); (milit.) to intrench. — un camp; to intrench a camp.
se retrancher, v.r., to restrain one’s self; to confine one’s self; to retrench, to curtail one’s expenses; (milit.) to intrench one’s self; to fall back upon, to urge, to plead, to put forward.
retranscrire, v.a., to copy out again.
*retravailler, v.a., to work again, to do over again.
retraverser, v.a., to cross, to traverse again.
retrayant, n.m., -e, n.f., (jur.) repurchaser; re-emptor.
rêtre, n.m. V. reître.
rétréci, -e, adj., narrow, cramped, contracted, confined.