retract
31retract — re|tract [ rı trækt ] verb intransitive or transitive 1. ) to say that something that you previously said or wrote is not true: The President s political adviser later retracted this statement. 2. ) if part of an object or animal retracts or is… …
32retract — re·tract || rɪ trækt v. annul, cancel; recant; withdraw, take back; retreat, draw back, pull back; pull inward; use a surgical device to keep open the edges of an organ or wound …
33retract — I. v. a. 1. Withdraw, draw back, draw in. 2. Recall, revoke, recant, abjure, disavow, cancel, take back, withdraw, unsay, disown. 3. Rescind, resume, take back. II. v. n. Take back, unsay …
34retract — I v draw back or in, pull back or in, withdraw, abduce, Physiol. abduct, Dentistry. retrude. II v 1. disavow, recant, unsay, withdraw, take back, Inf. eat or swallow one s words; deny, gainsay, renounce, forswear, abjure; repudiate, disclaim… …
35retract — re·tract …
36retract — [rɪˈtrækt] verb [I/T] to say that something that you previously said is not true retraction [rɪˈtrækʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] …
37retract — To draw back, pull back, or rewind …
38retract — v. 1 tr. (also absol.) withdraw or revoke (a statement or undertaking). 2 a tr. & intr. (esp. with ref. to part of the body) draw or be drawn back or in. b tr. draw (an undercarriage etc.) into the body of an aircraft. Derivatives: retractable… …
39Deformation retract — Retract redirects here. For other meanings including concepts in group theory and category theory, see Retraction (disambiguation). In topology, a branch of mathematics, a retraction [1], as the name suggests, retracts an entire space into a… …
40retract one's words — withdraw someone that one has said, take back one s own statement …
