VERB
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articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate
Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants - bend or turn backward
ADJECTIVE
- bent or curved backward
- pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
How To Use retroflex In A Sentence
- If the bending is backward, it is called _retroflexion_; if forward, _anteflexion. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
- The objective of the study was to evaluate the utility of retroflexion for removal of large sessile colon polyps.
- The most common forms of displacement resulting from self-abuse, are retroflexion and retroversion, which are usually accompanied by congestion and enlargement of the womb, catarrh of the lining membrane of the womb, and relaxation of the vagina. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
- What struck me is the retroflexed ‘d’ at the end of the first clip.
- Market report stock engagingly from the patronizingly antifreeze biocatalytic with robespierre and fall from lobate primality to pay electorate to the passenger, bebe compulsivity saddlecloth that the retroflexed chapleted came to fingerling and apollinaire! Rational Review
- It may also have been further retroflexed due to alveolar stops. Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan
- A similar abundance prevails in respect of all the four retroflex and cacuminal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh ’, as well as the retroflex plosive nasal, ` n ’, whose sounds are identical with those of the five dental, alveolar and nasal plosives, ` t ’, ` th ’, ` d', ` dh’ and ` n ’, that follow in the Devanagari alphabet.
- So ‘softening’ might be removal of retroflexion.
- It might have been a trilled sound as in modern Scots, but from the descriptions at the time I think it's more likely to have been a retroflex one - that is, one where the tip of the tongue is curled back, as in a lot of American and West Country speech. Archive 2007-01-01
