Usually means: Responding sharply or critically verbally.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word retorting:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. retorting: Merriam-Webster
  2. retorting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retorting: Vocabulary.com
  4. retorting: Wordnik
  5. retorting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retorting: Wiktionary
  7. Retorting, retorting: Dictionary.com
  8. retorting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Retorting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Retorting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Retorting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. retorting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. retorting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. retorting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retorting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retorting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retorting: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (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.
verb:  To bend or curve back.
verb:  To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
noun:  (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
noun:  An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
noun:  A pressure cooker.
noun:  A crematory furnace.
verb:  (transitive) To heat in a retort.
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