6 Letter Words That Start With RE

repose

Verb : (intransitive) (also figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.

Verb : (intransitive) (figurative, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, of a saint) To die, to rest in peace.

Verb : (intransitive) Followed by on or upon: of a thing: to lie or be physically positioned on something, especially horizontally; to rest on or be supported by something.

render

Verb : (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

Verb : (transitive) To translate into another language.

Verb : (ditransitive) To cause to become.

rebuke

Verb : (of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

Noun : (of a person) A harsh criticism.

regard

Noun : One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.

Noun : (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

Verb : (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.

relish

Noun : (by extension) (countable, uncountable, originally US) A condiment or sauce added to food for a spicy or tangy flavour; specifically, one made with chopped, pickled fruit or vegetables.

Noun : (by extension) (chiefly in the negative) (uncountable) Enjoyment of flavour or taste; (countable) an instance of this.

Noun : (by extension) (chiefly in the negative) (figurative, uncountable) Enjoyment of something pleasant; (countable) an instance of this.

refute

Verb : (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

Verb : (transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.

recoil

Verb : To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.

Verb : (weaponry) Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired.

Noun : (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.

revere

Verb : (transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.

Verb : (transitive, also religion) To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.

Noun : A revers.

recess

Noun : (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.

Noun : (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.

Noun : (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.

retain

Verb : (transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.

Verb : (transitive) (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.

Verb : (transitive) Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.

remark

Noun : A casual observation, comment, or statement

Noun : An expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; a mention of something

Noun : An act of pointing out or noticing; notice or observation.

regent

Noun : One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.

Noun : (Scotland, Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Noun : (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency.

reason

Noun : (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

Noun : A motive for an action or a determination.

Noun : An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

reveal

Verb : (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

Noun : (cinematography, narratology, comedy, usually informal) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.

Verb : (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

refuge

Noun : A place providing safety, protection or shelter.

Noun : A state of safety, protection or shelter.

Noun : Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.

repent

Verb : (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".

Verb : (theology, intransitive) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to practice sin and to love.

Verb : (transitive) To be sorry for, to regret.

reject

Verb : (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.

Verb : (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.

Noun : Something that is rejected.

reduce

Verb : (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

Verb : (intransitive) To lose weight.

Verb : (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

reckon

Verb : (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

Verb : To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

Verb : To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

recall

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.

Noun : Memory; the ability to remember.

Verb : (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.

retort

Noun : A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.

Verb : To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.

Verb : To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.

return

Verb : (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).

Verb : (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

Verb : (intransitive) To recur; to come again.

relief

Noun : The removal of stress or discomfort.

Noun : The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.

Noun : Aid or assistance offered in time of need.

report

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).

Verb : (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).

Verb : (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.

revolt

Verb : (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.

Noun : An act of revolting.

Verb : (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

regret

Verb : To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.

Verb : (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).

Noun : Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.

remedy

Noun : A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

Noun : Something that corrects or counteracts.

Noun : (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

refuse

Verb : (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

Verb : (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

Verb : (ditransitive) To withhold (something) from (someone); to not give it to them or to bar them from having it.

relent

Verb : (intransitive) To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency.

Verb : (intransitive) To slacken; to abate.

Verb : (dated, intransitive, of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting

retard

Noun : (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.

Noun : (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.

Noun : A retardation; a delay.

repast

Noun : (countable) (archaic or literary) A meal.

Noun : (uncountable) (archaic) Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.

Noun : (uncountable) (obsolete) The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.

regale

Verb : (transitive) To please or entertain (someone), especially with stories, tales or jokes.

Verb : (transitive) To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.

Verb : (figurative, transitive) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.

reside

Verb : To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.

Verb : To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

Verb : To sink; to settle, as sediment.

record

Noun : An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

Noun : Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

Verb : (transitive) To make a record of information.

region

Noun : Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

Noun : An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

Noun : An administrative subdivision of the European Union.

relict

Noun : (formal) Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.

Noun : (biology, ecology) A species, organism, or ecosystem that has survived from a previous age: one that was once widespread but is now found only in a few areas.

Adjective : Surviving, remaining.

revile

Verb : (ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.

Noun : (obsolete) reproach; reviling

review

Noun : An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.

Verb : To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.

Noun : A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.

result

Noun : That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

Noun : The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.

Verb : (intransitive, followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about

resent

Verb : (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront.

Verb : (transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To be sensible of; to feel.

recede

Verb : To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

Verb : To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

Verb : To take back.

repair

Verb : To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

Noun : The act of repairing something.

Noun : The result of repairing something.

revert

Noun : One who, or that which, reverts.

Noun : (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.

Noun : (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.

renege

Verb : (intransitive) To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. [(often) with on]

Verb : (intransitive, card games) To break one's commitment to follow suit when capable.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To deny; to renounce

resign

Verb : (transitive or intransitive) To voluntarily leave (a job or position), in particular a hard-fought position of high status.

Verb : (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of.

Verb : (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.

resort

Noun : A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

Noun : Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

Verb : (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

renown

Noun : Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

Verb : (transitive) To make famous.

Noun : (obsolete) Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.

remiss

Adjective : At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.

Adjective : Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.

remote

Adjective : At a distance; disconnected.

Adjective : Distant or otherwise inaccessible.

Adjective : (especially with respect to likelihood) Slight.

revoke

Verb : (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

Verb : (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.

Noun : The act of revoking in a game of cards.

remove

Verb : (transitive) To delete.

Verb : (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.

Verb : (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

revive

Verb : (transitive) (figurative) To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.

Verb : (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

Verb : (transitive) (figurative) To cause (a feeling, state of mind, etc.) to come back or return; to reactivate, to reawaken.

remain

Verb : To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

Verb : To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.

Verb : To await; to be left to.

rebuff

Verb : (transitive) To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.

Noun : A sudden resistance or refusal.

Noun : Repercussion, or beating back.

repute

Noun : Reputation, especially a good reputation.

Verb : To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Verb : To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

repeat

Verb : (transitive) To do or say again (and again).

Verb : (intransitive) To happen again; recur.

Verb : (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).

reward

Noun : Something of value given in return for an act.

Noun : A prize promised for a certain deed or catch

Verb : (transitive) To give a reward to or for.

regime

Noun : A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

Noun : Mode of rule or management.

Noun : A period of rule.

relate

Verb : (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).

Verb : (intransitive) To have a connection.

Verb : (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.

reform

Verb : (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better.

Noun : The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it

Verb : (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits.

resist

Verb : (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.

Verb : (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

Verb : (transitive) To withstand the actions of.

rector

Noun : A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.

Noun : In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.

Noun : In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.

resume

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).

Noun : A summary or synopsis.

Verb : (transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.

redact

Verb : (usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.

Verb : (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.

Verb : To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

rejolt

Noun : Another jolt

Noun : A counter-jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

Verb : (rare) To jolt or shake again.

really

Verb : (modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.

Verb : (informal, as an intensifier) Very (modifying an adjective); very much (modifying a verb).

Verb : (literal) In a way or manner that is real, not unreal.

rectum

Noun : (anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

reflex

Noun : An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.

Adjective : Produced automatically by a stimulus.

Verb : To respond to a stimulus.

rescue

Verb : To save from any violence, danger or evil.

Verb : To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

Noun : An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

redeem

Verb : (transitive) To save, rescue.

Verb : (transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame.

Verb : (transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).

recite

Verb : (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

Verb : (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

Verb : (transitive) To list or enumerate something.

repone

Verb : To replace.

Verb : To reply.

remeid

Noun : (dialect) Remedy.

Noun : (Scots law) Legal redress of a wrong.

Noun : (Scotland and Northern Ireland) Any correction of a wrong or undesirable thing.

rebate

Noun : A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.

Noun : The return of part of an amount already paid.

Verb : (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

revamp

Verb : (transitive) To improve, renew, renovate, or revise (something).

Noun : An act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something; an improvement, renovation, revamping, or revision.

redden

Verb : (intransitive) To become red or redder.

Verb : (transitive) To make red or redder.

Noun : A surname.

relics

Noun : (subtitle: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios) a 1971 compilation album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

Noun : "Relics" is the 130th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the fourth episode of the sixth season.

repeal

Verb : (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.

Noun : An act or instance of repealing.

Verb : To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.

remand

Noun : The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.

Verb : To send a prisoner back to custody.

Noun : The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.

remora

Noun : Any of various elongate fish from the family Echeneidae, the dorsal fin of which is in the form of a suction disc that can take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals.

Noun : (heraldry) A serpent.

Noun : (obsolete) A delay; a hindrance, an obstacle.

rejoin

Verb : To join again; to unite after separation.

Verb : To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

Verb : (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

remise

Verb : (transitive) To send or give back.

Verb : To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.

Noun : (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.

repugn

Verb : (archaic) To oppose or resist

reseda

Noun : (botany) Any of various plants of the genus Reseda having small, pale grayish green flowers, such as dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola) and mignonette (Reseda odorata).

Noun : (botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).

Noun : A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

rev up

Verb : (by extension, transitive) To make (someone or something) more active.

Verb : (by extension, intransitive) To become more active.

Verb : (idiomatic) To increase the speed of an engine, especially that of a stationary motor car.

reaver

Noun : One who reaves; a plunderer, marauder, or pillager.

reezed

Adjective : (obsolete) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.

reefer

Noun : (countable) A marijuana cigarette.

Noun : (uncountable) Marijuana.

Noun : (colloquial, chiefly US) A refrigerated, insulated trailer, ship or shipping container.

reader

Noun : A person who reads.

Noun : A person who reads a publication.

Noun : A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.

refine

Verb : (ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

Verb : (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.

Verb : (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

reflux

Noun : (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

Noun : The backwards flow of any fluid.

Noun : (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.

recant

Verb : (ambitransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.

Verb : To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve.

revise

Verb : To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

Verb : (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.

Noun : A review or a revision.

rehash

Verb : (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Noun : (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Verb : (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.

recuse

Verb : (transitive, often reflexive) (reflexive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

Verb : (transitive, often reflexive) (chiefly Canada, US, law) To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

Verb : (intransitive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

reborn

Adjective : Revived or regenerated, especially emotionally or spiritually.

Adjective : (often postpositive) Reincarnated.

Noun : A manufactured vinyl doll that has been transformed to resemble a human baby with as much realism as possible.

redeye

Noun : Alternative form of red-eye. [(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.]

relume

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively).

Verb : (transitive, now rare) To make clear or bright again.

regius

Adjective : (rare outside set phrases such as those found below) Of or relating to a king; royal.

recure

Verb : To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

Noun : (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery

Verb : (obsolete) To cure, heal.

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