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View definitions for retrench

retrench

verb as in save

verb as in economize

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Example Sentences

Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate.

He pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."

If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid.

One of the hardest words a missionary can get from his Home Board is the word "retrench."

Charles really wished to retrench his expenses; but Mrs. Germaine's pride was an insuperable obstacle to all his plans of economy.

How could it be that a man who had so much wit, had not enough to retrench these egregious faults?

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to retrench, such as: conserve, curtail, cut down, economize, reduce, and scrimp.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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