Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retro-engineer
Participle: retro-engineered
Gerund: retro-engineering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retro-engineer |
| you | retro-engineer |
| he;she;it | retro-engineers |
| we | retro-engineer |
| you | retro-engineer |
| they | retro-engineer |
Perfect
| I | have retro-engineered |
| you | have retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | has retro-engineered |
| we | have retro-engineered |
| you | have retro-engineered |
| they | have retro-engineered |
Past
| I | retro-engineered |
| you | retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | retro-engineered |
| we | retro-engineered |
| you | retro-engineered |
| they | retro-engineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had retro-engineered |
| you | had retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | had retro-engineered |
| we | had retro-engineered |
| you | had retro-engineered |
| they | had retro-engineered |
Future
| I | will retro-engineer |
| you | will retro-engineer |
| he;she;it | will retro-engineer |
| we | will retro-engineer |
| you | will retro-engineer |
| they | will retro-engineer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retro-engineered |
| you | will have retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | will have retro-engineered |
| we | will have retro-engineered |
| you | will have retro-engineered |
| they | will have retro-engineered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retro-engineer |
| you | retro-engineer |
| he;she;it | retro-engineer |
| we | retro-engineer |
| you | retro-engineer |
| they | retro-engineer |
Perfect
| I | have retro-engineered |
| you | have retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | have retro-engineered |
| we | have retro-engineered |
| you | have retro-engineered |
| they | have retro-engineered |
Imperfect
| I | retro-engineered |
| you | retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | retro-engineered |
| we | retro-engineered |
| you | retro-engineered |
| they | retro-engineered |
Pluperfect
| I | had retro-engineered |
| you | had retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | had retro-engineered |
| we | had retro-engineered |
| you | had retro-engineered |
| they | had retro-engineered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retro-engineer |
| you | would retro-engineer |
| he;she;it | would retro-engineer |
| we | would retro-engineer |
| you | would retro-engineer |
| they | would retro-engineer |
Perfect
| I | would have retro-engineered |
| you | would have retro-engineered |
| he;she;it | would have retro-engineered |
| we | would have retro-engineered |
| you | would have retro-engineered |
| they | would have retro-engineered |
Imperative
| you | retro-engineer |
| we | Let's retro-engineer |
| you | retro-engineer |
Verbs conjugated like 'retro-engineer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retro-engineer'
re-engineer,
geoengineer,
microengineer,
reengineer,
reverse-engineer,
outengineer,
overengineer,
engineer,
recombineer,
reregister,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From retro- + engineer.
Sample Sentences
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On other occasions, where the technical basis for the initial entry cannot be defended, the second mover has the advantage, since it may well be less costly to retro-engineer a product than to have invented and innovated it. [2006, David O. Faulkner, Andrew Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of Strategy, →ISBN:]
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I suspected that's why I could so easily retro-engineer and re-invent their ultra-superior and advanced technology. [2010, Greg Castle, Remote Viewer: NSA Secret Agent, →ISBN, page 99:]
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He was an engineer, it was his responsibility to retro-engineer the saucer and its components, to find out how it could do what it had done. [2010, Mike W. Barr, Majician, →ISBN, page 39:]
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You can retro-engineer it. You look at a roomful of junk and you pay attention to what's lying on what, because that will eventually tell you what fell first. [2010, Jonathan Maberry, The Dragon Factory, →ISBN:]
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It may have been the case that Plato and the Academy were attempting to retro-engineer an ideal government based on existing models of past experiments in political reform. [2011, Kenneth Royce Moore, Plato, Politics and a Practical Utopia, →ISBN:]
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If you can retro-engineer Sauron's ring, it isn't as magical anymore. It's a matter of the characters getting control of the material, as opposed to being in a situation or universe where this is not really possible. [2012, Darrell Schweitzer, George R.R. Martin, James Morrow, Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers, →ISBN:]
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Use the functional interaction with your best performers to retro-engineer a mission, values, and culture check-in. [2002, J. Leslie McKeown, Retaining Top Employees, →ISBN, page 175:]
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Set out the ambitions within a realistic time-frame, and re-engineer what you need to achieve in order to get there, taking into account possible interdependencies between different communication elements. This is altogether not very different from any IT project: define your goals, break it into smaller pieces, work out the interdependencies, and retro-engineer the goals into how you're going to get there. [2009, Peter Hinssen, Jeroen Derynck, Business/IT Fusion, →ISBN:]
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As we noted in the previous chapter, the best method for scheduling your time is to retro-engineer—that is, work backward. [2013, Joshua Halberstam, Debra Gonsher, The Community College Guide, →ISBN:]
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All of this makes some sense in terms of using the windfall brownfield site to retro-engineer a more mixed use form of development, but it does show up the shortcomings of the previous approach and the difficulties of achieving the new constraint policy. [2009, Graham Haughton, Philip Allmendinger, David Counsell, The New Spatial Planning, →ISBN:]
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And yet, when a teenager with known suicidal tendencies overdoses on easily available pills, many will feel fully entitled to demand recompense from the homeowner whose inadvertence so predictably in-fact and proximately contributed to the tragedy, and any effort to retro-engineer a precautionary rule is just disingenuous Monday morning quarterbacking. [2014, John Oberdiek, Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts, →ISBN, page 394:]
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It is much more difficult to retro-engineer at the end, security is all about how it is used and should be a driving force from concept commencement. [2015, Frances Cleary, Massimo Felici, Cyber Security and Privacy, →ISBN:]
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Once Alexander is on the scene he must defend his mother's status continually in order to retro-engineer his own legitimacy. [2016, S. Poor, J. Schulman, Women and the Medieval Epic, →ISBN:]