ret

1. 1.

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

   Broaderdrench

Other forms of ret

past tense or participle

retted

present participle

retting

third person

rets·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ret

What does ret mean?

ret means "place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue".

How many syllables are in ret?

ret has 1 syllable: ret. In IPA it is /ˈɹɛt/.

Is ret a common word?

ret is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.