Usually means: Ignition to slow spacecraft for reentry.
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  1. retrofire: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrofire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. retrofire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retrofire: Wiktionary
  5. retrofire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. retrofire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. retrofire: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. retrofire: Dictionary.com
  9. Retrofire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. retrofire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. retrofire: Encyclopedia

(Note: See retrofired as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retrofire)

noun:  The firing of rockets directed opposite to a craft's direction of motion in order to slow down.
verb:  To fire rockets of a craft in the direction opposite to its direction of motion in order to slow down.

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