Retract is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETRACT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to take back
• draw or be drawn back or back in
• withdraw (a statement or accusation) as untrue or unjustified
• withdraw or go back on (an undertaking)
• withdraw (a statement etc)
• To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
• To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
• To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
• To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
• To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
• pull away from a source of disgust or fear
• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
• pull inward or towards a center
NOUN:
• The pricking of a horse\'s foot in nailing on a shoe.

Words related to RETRACT

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Words that contain RETRACT

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How to use RETRACT in a sentence

• If it had been any other spot! But it was too late to retract.
• Whilst he is capable of changing, we may be forced to retract our Opinions.
• Some of the laborers in the field, Elsie among them, had hoped, they said, that the wool-comber would retract from his dangerous position.
• He evaded entering Florence, where he had made promises which he could neither retract nor fulfil.
• But, being once involved, there was a stubbornness in his nature that would not allow him to retract, and he suffered himself to hope, rather than expect, a favourable issue.
• The newspapers heard of it, and then I could not retract.
• Could I retract my word, and take upon myself the responsibility of compromising the future of my companions? To-morrow Captain Nemo might take us far from all land.
• Although it was not much, it was so uncertain, that his conscience obliged him, according to what the other religious say, to retract it publicly in another sermon.
• We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim.
• A power, therefore, never makes concessions which it does not afterwards seek to retract.
• He had gone up like a hunter, sure of his game, and too far in it to retract.
• Everybody heard her, and it was out of the question for her to retract.
• He was commanded to retract the charges he had made against the church.
• Though the people in mass have joined us, their leaders had committed themselves too far to retract.
• He will pledge himself to retract any error into which he may have fallen, and which Callicles may point out.
• I see no opinion that I would retract or alter, unless it be, that possibly the Italians went not so far as Spain, for the invention of their operas.
• She had pledged her word to him, open-eyed, and she was not free, as other women might be, to retract the promise she had given.
• She had given John her loving sympathy, and she would not retract a word of it to him.
• The present incumbent wishes to retract his resignation, and declares his intention of appointing a curate for two years.
• Being informed of this design, he tampered with his brother, and desired that he would retract upon the trial the evidence he had given before the justices.
• It was anticipated that the deputation would not be very graciously received, and that the king would not retract his former sentiments.
• At any rate, such was their aspect, and for many days the remark was repeated or referred to with the hope, apparently, of inducing me to retract or qualify it.
• Upon this opinion, which Dryden lived to retract, I have ventured to offer my sentiments in the Life of the Author.
• He afterwards repented, but was not then permitted to retract his refusal, and was sent away to be sold.
• I have nothing to regret, or to retract, or take back.
• Guanacoes, as I have noticed, when not intending to bite, but merely to spit their offensive saliva from a distance at an intruder, retract their ears.
• Elephants, which in like manner fight with their tusks, do not retract their ears, but, on the contrary, erect them when rushing at each other or at an enemy.
• And when the hills are full, And newer fashions blow, Doth not retract a single spice For pang of jealousy.
• In all probability, this time his master would not retract.
• D’Artagnan’s friends reminded him that he had a visit to pay, but at the same time bade him observe that there was yet time to retract.
• This sounds like a reasonable and sensible statement, yet the moment it is made I retract it, as quite misleading and altogether too general.
• CHAPTER XV Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs.
• I am wrong, without a doubt, and I would willingly retract.

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