Retraction

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
  • n. The act of recanting or disavowing a previously held statement or belief.
  • n. A formal statement of disavowal.
  • n. Something recanted or disavowed.
  • n. The power of drawing back or of being drawn back.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An act or instance of retracting.
  • n. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
  • n. A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted.
  • n. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.
  • n.
  • n. The act of retracting or shortening.
  • n. The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of retracting, or the state of being retracted or drawn back: as, the retraction of a cat's claws.
  • n. A falling back; retreat.
  • n. The act of undoing or unsaying something previously done or said; the act of rescinding or recanting, as previous measures or opinions.
  • n. Synonyms See renounce.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back
  • n. a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    motility    movement    motion    move   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    recantation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abstraction    action    attraction    contraction    diffraction   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    recantation    retractation    retracement    repeal    abjuration   
     
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