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1. retain
verb. ['rɪˈteɪn, riːˈteɪn'] allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.
Synonyms
- keep on
- prolong
- continue
- keep
- keep up
- sustain
Antonyms
- let
- change
- free
- break
Etymology
- retenir (French)
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Rhymes with Retain
- st_germain
- legerdemain
- st_germaine
- preordain
- lamontagne
- lafountaine
- lafountain
- inhumane
- constrain
- restrain
- overtrain
- mcswain
- explain
- complain
- champlain
- aquitaine
- ukraine
- tremaine
- sylvain
- sustain
- spokane
- sartain
- retrain
- refrain
- profane
- partain
- mustain
- mundane
- mcwain
- mcshane
How do you pronounce retain?
Pronounce retain as rɪˈteɪn.
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Sentences with retain
1. Verb, base form
If you have room in the refrigerator, keep the watermelon cool before and after slicing to retain firmness.
2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
The sugar in the pear juice will help the canned fruit retain its color, texture and shape.
Quotes about retain
1. One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
- Robert Mankoff
2. Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
- C. JoyBell C.
3. God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
- Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
2. retain
verb. ['rɪˈteɪn, riːˈteɪn'] hold back within.
Synonyms
- bear
- hold
- carry
Antonyms
- negate
- disprove
- deny
- act
Etymology
- retenir (French)
3. retain
verb. ['rɪˈteɪn, riːˈteɪn'] secure and keep for possible future use or application.
Synonyms
- hold on
- hold down
- keep
- hold
- keep back
Antonyms
- shorten
- stay in place
- allow
- attack
Etymology
- retenir (French)
4. retain
verb. ['rɪˈteɪn, riːˈteɪn'] keep in one's mind.
Synonyms
- remember
Antonyms
- refrain
- discontinue
Etymology
- retenir (French)