Retrench is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 146 anagrams from letters in retrench (ceehnrrt).
1600-10; French retrencher (obsolete variant of retrancher), Middle French retrenchier, equivalent to re- re- + trenchier to trench
But if you give him rope enough he will retrench you out of business.
Pavilliard and I contrive to retrench out of my other expenses.
Dr. Tremayne decided to retrench and to keep only one man-servant.
Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate.
If he can retrench in pains without lessening his gains, be assured that he will do it.
But it is all theory; for when I came to the practical part I could retrench nothing.
They were in reduced circumstances: they had come down to Hadleigh to retrench.
The tendency of communities is to retrench on food, rather than on commodities or embellishments which they ought to go without.
But there was only one way open to me at present—and that was to retrench my expenses.
My distress was useless, my wishes to retrench our expenses ineffectual.
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