Retaining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETAINING in dictionary:

VERB:
• RETAIN, to keep possession of
• continue to have (something); keep possession of
• not abolish or alter; maintain
• absorb and continue to hold (a substance)
• keep (something) in place; hold fixed
• secure the services of (a barrister) with a preliminary payment
• keep in one's memory
• keep (someone) engaged in one's service

Words related to RETAINING

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How to use RETAINING in a sentence

• They had travelled all that afternoon and evening on the river ice, hard as iron, retaining no trace of footprint or of runner possible to verify even in daylight.
• This is done by leaving out those qualities, which are peculiar to each sort, and retaining a complex idea made up of those that are common to them all.
• I knew why he was there, and, still retaining the volume in my hand, went down to meet him.
• Yet, sometimes retaining their original beauty, they are an ornament, and in them we read the record of deep thought and experience.
• The western part, retaining the Rock River Valley, was now called Watertown, and Rev.
• It is a noble thing when a man grows old retaining something of youthful freshness and fervor.
• The formation, though still retaining the blunt wedge design, was simplified.
• He has as fair prospects to remain emperor of France till he dies, for aught that I can see, as any European monarch has of retaining his throne.
• In slaying this new life within herself, she would lose forever the sense of living companionship, retaining only the religion of the Crucifix.
• Believe me, your last chance of retaining your position here is to remember that you have had specific orders to yield to my authority in all matters.
• To answer such purpose a decoction should be made from the small twigs, and from the bark of the larger branches, retaining the leaves.
• A little to the right of the point where these retaining walls occur there is a room in which horizontal beams have been incorporated in the masonry.
• On the second they pay wages at the rate of ten dollars per month, furnishing rations free, and retaining half the money until the end of the year.
• Their mother died in 1839, retaining, to the never-ceasing grief of her Northern daughters, her slave-holding principles to the last.
• Retaining the last for local purposes, they hand on the two former to the county authorities, who, in turn, retain the county tax, handing on to the State what it requires.
• SYDNEY ARNOLD sought an admission from the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER that the income-tax on small incomes was hardly worth retaining, owing to the cost of collection.
• Desirous of retaining in the navy a name already illustrious in its service, the new government had profited by a general change of officers to make Savinien an ensign.
• My memory is less faithful in retaining names, and, I am afraid, in retaining occurrences.
• I therefore preferred retaining the simple costume, consisting of a kind of blouse and wide Turkish trousers, which I then wore.
• It is presumed that no man, retaining reason was ever able soon to forget any enormity, which he knew himself guilty.
• The reason of this comparative ease will be plain to any one who, retaining a vague memory of his Greek grammar, takes up a modern Greek newspaper.
• Party never touched him, and both factions concurred in retaining him, because it was the universal wish of the people of his circuit.
• That the time must arrive, when no longer retaining Their auburn, these locks must wave thin to the breeze.

Similar words containing TAIN without suffix ing and without prefix re

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