Definition of retract

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Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..

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Retractation :: Retractation (n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke..
Retractate :: Retractate (v. t.) To retract; to recant.
Withdrawer :: Withdrawer (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts..
Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..
Retentor :: Retentor (n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata..
Palinode :: Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode..
Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation..
Guttural :: Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound..
Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not tractile or ductile.
Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. t.) To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges..
Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..
Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..
Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws..
Retracting :: Retracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrac.
Retractive :: Retractive (n.) That which retracts, or withdraws..
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