riposte
verb/rɪˈpɒst/
/rɪˈpəʊst/
[transitive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they riposte | /rɪˈpɒst/ /rɪˈpəʊst/ |
| he / she / it ripostes | /rɪˈpɒsts/ /rɪˈpəʊsts/ |
| past simple riposted | /rɪˈpɒstɪd/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪd/ |
| past participle riposted | /rɪˈpɒstɪd/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪd/ |
| -ing form riposting | /rɪˈpɒstɪŋ/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪŋ/ |
- to make a quick and clever reply to somebody/something, especially to a criticism
- riposte + speech ‘You are as ill-informed as usual,’ she riposted.
- riposte that… At once he riposted that his country had no link with insurgents.
- riposte with something The MP riposted with some more, quite different, statistics.
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