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RETRENCHING
Definition of RETRENCHING
verb
present participle and gerund of retrench
verb
To cut down or reduce. To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
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Word DNA
RETRENCHING inherits its ancestry from its root, RETRENCH.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,234)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RETRENCH · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETRENCHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETRENCHING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CEEGHINNRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, E and N appear more than once.
Words that start RETRENC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETRENCHING?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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