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v. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement.

v. To draw back or in: a plane retracting its landing gear. See Synonyms at recede1.

v. Linguistics To utter (a sound) with the tongue drawn back.

v. Linguistics To draw back (the tongue).

verb-intransitive. To take something back or disavow it.

verb-intransitive. To draw back.

v. To pull back inside (for example, an airplane retracting its wheels while flying).

v. To take back or withdraw something one has said.

v. To draw back; to draw up or shorten

v. To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back.

v. To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.

verb-intransitive. To draw back; to draw up.

verb-intransitive. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

n. The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

To draw back; draw in: sometimes opposed to protract or protrude: as, a cat retracts her claws.

To withdraw; remove.

To take back; undo; recall; recant: as, to retract an assertion or an accusation.

To contract; lessen in length; shorten.

To draw or shrink back; draw in; recede.

To undo or unsay what has been done or said before; recall or take back a declaration or a concession; recant.

n. A falling back; a retreat.

n. A retractation; recantation.

n. In farriery, the prick of a horse's foot in nailing a shoe, requiring the nail to be withdrawn.

v. pull inward or towards a center

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

v. pull away from a source of disgust or fear

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

"Equally, the vendor can pull out if a better offer comes along, or if they retract from the market."

retracted    retractibility    retracting    retractively    retracts   

repudiate    disown    renounce    flinch    funk    cringe    squinch    quail    shrink    recoil   

unsay    unspeak   

revoke    disown    recant    recall    unsay    withdraw    abjure    disavow    rescind    take back   

abstract    act    attacked    attract    backed    blacked    compact    contract    counterattacked    cracked