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retrude

American  
[ri-trood] / rɪˈtrud /

verb (used with object)

Dentistry.
retruded, retruding
  1. to produce retrusion in.


Etymology

Origin of retrude

1640–50; < Latin retrūdere to thrust back, equivalent to re- re- + trūdere to thrust

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Sample musical prescriptions: a child with a protruded jaw should play the saxophone or clarinet, a child with a retruded jaw the trumpet, cornet, bugle or trombone.

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