Retract

Definition: Retract

Retract

Verb

1. Reject; "He retracted his earlier statements about his beliefs".

2. Shrink back, as in fear.

3. Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).

4. Pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws".

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Date "retract" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Retract \Re*tract"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Retracted; Retracting.]. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Retract

Abrogation

Verb: abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy; abolish; revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule, override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.

Irresolution

Vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate; (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold; (caprice).

Nonobservance

Retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter; stretch a point, strain a point.

Resignation

Verb: resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny.

Tergiversation

Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl.

Crosswords: Retract

High Tech

• Auto Retractable Phone Cord 8FT Auto Retract Built In Coupler (reference)

• Wheeled Computer Case-ez Accesspockets Faux Leather Retract (reference)

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Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton

The moment is a solemn one, and there is still time to retract if you think yourself mistaken

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Health

Retract the buccal mucosa. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

The economy began expanding in 1994 and grew 2.5% in 2001, with overall GDP reaching $2.44 million in 2001. In 2001, the global recession, combined with a series of bank failures, low coffee prices, and a drought, caused the economy to retract. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Nonetheless, a referendum seeking to force the Swiss government to retract the country's application for EU membership was rejected in May, 1997. The Government has been making a concerted effort to bring Swiss laws and regulations into line with those of the EU, and Switzerland recently concluded a package of seven sectoral agreements with the EU, known as "the Bilaterals" which will afford Switzerland many of the economic advantages that joining the EEA would have. (references)

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Expression using "retract": to retract. Additional references.

Albanian

tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), mohoj (abnegate, deny, disaffirm, disavow, disclaim, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, rat, refuse, repudiate, set aside), marr mbrapa, anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكر (contradict, controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, unreel), ‏تقلص (contract, cringe, dwindle, retraction, shrink, shrinkage, shrivel), ‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏تراجح عن أقواله, ‏سحب وعدا, ‏إنكمش (contract, cower, cringe, seize, shrink), ‏إسدرك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъсявам (abbreviate, contract, curtail, cut down, shorten), отричам (abnegate, denounce, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, proscribe, renounce, repudiate, testify against), оттеглям (back down, countermand, detach, haul off, pull away, retire, retreat, withdraw), отказвам се от (abandon, abnegate, call off, decline, deny oneself, disavow, discard, disclaim, forwent, give away, give oneself up, give up, jettison, part with, pass up, put away, remise, renounce, repudiate, surrender, toss over, turn from, turn in, yield), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), прибирам (gather, get in, hive, house, pack away, pouch, pound, put away, put up, remove, round up, take in, truss, unship), дръпвам (hitch, jerk, pull, pull at, pull away, pull down, pull in, strike, suck at, tug, tweak, twitch, withdraw). (various references)

Chinese 

缩回 (retracted, Retracting). (various references)

Czech

zatáhnout (close, overcast), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

Dutch

intrekken (draw back, withdraw). (various references)

Farsi 

منقبض کردن (Condense, Constrict, Contract, Scrunch, Shrug), تورفتن (Enter), جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Backlog, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Flock, Gather, Group, Herd, Muster, Shrink, Snuggle, Twitch). (various references)

French

rétractons, rétractez, rétracter (recant), rétractent, se rétracter (recant), se désavouer, escamoter. (various references)

German

zurückziehen (abjure, backtrack, draw away, draw back, fly back, march back, move back, pull back, retire, retreat, retrieve, revocation, revoke, to retire, to retract, to retrieve, withdraw, withdrawn). (various references)

Greek 

παλινωδώ (recant), υπαναχωρώ (back out, go back on, withdraw), ανακαλώ (abrogate, annul, call off, countermand, recall, renege, repeal, rescind, revoke), αποσύρω (draw out, retire, withdraw), αποσύρομαι (pull out, recede, resign, retire, retire from, retreat, stand down, withdraw). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תכחש (abjure, disavow, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate), ל�"רתע (back away, blench, boggle, cringe, draw back, flinch, recoil, refrain, retreat, withdraw), לס�'ת (back away, draw back, fall back, give ground, lose ground, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

visszalép (back out of, backtrack, stand down, to back out of a bargain, to cry off, to recede, to stand down, to stand off), visszahúz (pull back, to draw back, to pull back, to retract), behúz (pull in, shirr, to draw down, to draw in, to gauge, to pull in, to retract). (various references)

Indonesian

menarik kembali (abrogate, redraw, retreat). (various references)

Italian

ritrattare (recant, treat again, unsay), ritrarre (depict, divert, draw back, get out, picture, portray, portray oneself, represent), ritirare (abstract, collect, draw, draw back, evacuate, pick up, recede, retire, seclude, shrink, subside, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), tirare indietro (pull back). (various references)

Manx

yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exalt, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, go up, heighten, hoist, raise, rise), tayrn er ash (draw back, draw off, pull back; revocation, retractation, stand down, withdraw, withdrawal). (various references)

Pig Latin

etractray.(various references)

Portuguese

retratar (delineate, depict, depicture, limn, paint, picture, portray, reflect, represent), retrair, recolher (reap), meter para dentro (take in, turn in), encolher (contract, shrink). (various references)

Romanian

reveni (call again, come, come again, devolve to smb., devolve upon smb., get back, go back, reappear, recede, recur, relapse, repass, return, revert), retrage (recall, recede, remove, retire, subside, withdraw), retracta (call back, eat one's words, recant, shrink, unsay, withdraw), se retrage (adjourn, climb, crane, cry off, draw back, draw off, efface, fall back, give way, make one's bow, move back, repair in, repair to, retire, retreat, shrink, shrink from, stand back, step aside, withdraw), dezice (deny, recant). (various references)

Russian 

втягивать (embroil, pull in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvući (drag in, hold in, indent, pop in, pull in, suck in, tuck, tuck in), poreći (deny, disavow, gainsay, traverse, unsay), oporeći (disavow, recant). (various references)

Spanish

retractarse (recant, unsay). (various references)

Swedish

dra tillbaka (back, draw back, draw off, withdraw). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), sözünü geri almak (back pedal, recant, swallow one's words, unsay), içeri çekmek, geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, take back, turn back, withdraw), geri çekmek (draw away, draw back, draw off, recall, retire, withdraw), geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retreat, set back, shrink back, stand back, step back, withdraw), dili çekerek telaffuz etmek, caymak (back down, back down from, back out, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, recant, swallow, swerve, wangle, wangle out of), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Turkmen 

dдnmek (deny). (various references)

Ukrainian

відмовлятися (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, back down, backtrack, cast off, discard, forgo, forsake, forswear, jettison, lay aside, lay down, nill, part with, pass up, pretext, recede, refuse, relinquish, renounce, repeal, throw aside, throw out, throw over, waive, withdraw), втягуватися, втягувати (haul in, involve, pull in, web). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retract": retractable, retracted, retractile, retractilities, retractility, retracting, retraction, retractions, retractor, retractors, retracts. (additional references)

Words containing "retract": nonretractile. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retract" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gebracht, retarait, retart, retat, retrack, retraite, ritratto, rotoract, tetract. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: carter, crater, ratter, tarter, tracer.

-2 letters: carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, racer, rater, react, recta, tacet, tarre, tater, tecta, terra, tetra, trace, tract, treat.

-3 letters: acre, care, carr, cart, cate, race, rare, rate, rear, tace, tact, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tret.

-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, att, car, cat, ear, eat.

+1 letter: retracts, retroact, tetrarch.

+2 letters: chatterer, clatterer, craterlet, detractor, extractor, rectorate, retracted, retractor, retroacts, scatterer, streetcar, tetrarchs, tetrarchy.

+3 letters: abstracter, carrotiest, chatterers, clatterers, craterlets, detractors, extractors, haircutter, meritocrat, protracted, rectorates, retractile, retracting, retraction, retractors, retroacted, scatterers, streetcars, subtracter, tetrachord, tetrameric, tetrarchic, tradecraft, trajectory, trifurcate, trochanter, watercraft.

+4 letters: abstracters, astrometric, carburetted, carburetter, carburettor, contracture, contrariety, counterpart, criticaster, directorate, gerontocrat, haircutters, intercrater, meritocrats, natriuretic, orchestrate, protectoral, protractile, protractive, retractable, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, scattergram, secretariat, subtracters, tetrachords, tetradrachm, tetrarchies, tetrasporic, tradecrafts, triceratops, trifurcated, trifurcates, trochanters, truckmaster, ultrasecret, watercrafts.