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Definition of Retract
1. Verb. Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. "She abjured her beliefs"
Generic synonyms: Disown, Renounce, Repudiate
Derivative terms: Abjuration, Abjurer, Forswearing, Recantation, Retraction
2. Verb. Pull away from a source of disgust or fear.
Generic synonyms: Cringe, Flinch, Funk, Quail, Recoil, Shrink, Squinch, Wince
3. Verb. Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).
4. Verb. Pull inward or towards a center. "The cat retracted his claws"
Generic synonyms: Attract, Draw, Draw In, Pull, Pull In
Related verbs: Attract, Draw, Draw In, Pull, Pull In
Specialized synonyms: Introvert, Invaginate
Derivative terms: Retraction
Definition of Retract
1. v. t. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
2. v. i. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
3. n. The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Definition of Retract
1. Verb. (transitive) To pull back inside (for example, an airplane retracting its wheels while flying). ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To take back or withdraw something one has said. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retract
1. to take back [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Retract
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1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. "I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it." (Bp. Stillingfleet)
3. To take back, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
Synonym: To recal, withdraw, rescind, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure, disown.
Origin: F. Retracter, L. Retractare, retractatum, to handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. Retrahere, retractum, to draw back. See Retreat.
1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. "She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files." (Granville)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retract
Literary usage of Retract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Record of Title of Real and Personal Property: With by Britain Rice Webb (1890)
"The Wish not to retract. The wife may have freely and voluntarily signed the
instrument, but the explanation of its effect, or some other circumstance, ..."
2. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"Sokrates allows the companion to retract some of his answers. ... I do not retract
any one of these. Sokr.— You think then, it appears, that some gain is ..."
3. History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Henry Beveridge (1845)
"*'irst appearance—First Words—Conditions of Rome—Propositions to retract— Luther's
reply—He withdraws—Impressions on both sides—Arrival of Staupitz. ..."
4. The Law of Equitable Mortgages: Treating of the Liens of Vendors and by Samuel Miller (1844)
"... to give up his security cannot retract. Ex parte Downes. Ex parte Davenport.
SECTION II. Of the Mode of realizing an Equitable Mortgage in Bankruptcy. ..."
5. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"Power to take land not lost by former erence, accurately describe land. 2.
Company cannot retract after giving unwarranted attempt. 5. ..."
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