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v. articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate; "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"

retroflex, replicate

v. bend or turn backward

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cacuminal, retroflex

adj. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate

retroflex, retroflexed

adj. bent or curved backward

mime, pantomime

v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

clone

v. make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"

model, pattern

v. plan or create according to a model or models

parallel, collimate

v. make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"

forge, fake, counterfeit

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

caricature, ape

v. represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"

parody, spoof, burlesque

v. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

backswept, sweptback

adj. used of hair

converse, reversed, transposed

adj. turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters"

inverse, reverse

adj. reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect

negative

adj. (backward)

rearward, reverse

adj. directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement"

receding(a)

adj. (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back

reflexive, self-referent

adj. referring back to itself

regardant(ip)

adj. looking backward

retracted

adj. drawn back and in; "a cat with retracted claws"

retroflex, retroflexed

adj. bent or curved backward

retrograde

adj. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

returning(a), reversive

adj. tending to be turned back

backswept, sweptback

adj. used of hair

cacuminal, retroflex

adj. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate

converse, reversed, transposed

adj. turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters"

inverse, reverse

adj. reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect

negative

adj. (backward)

rearward, reverse

adj. directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement"

receding(a)

adj. (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back

reflexive, self-referent

adj. referring back to itself

regardant(ip)

adj. looking backward

retracted

adj. drawn back and in; "a cat with retracted claws"

retrograde

adj. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

returning(a), reversive

adj. tending to be turned back

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