retract
[verb]
Synonyms:
- withdraw, deny, disavow, disclaim, eat one's words, recant, renege, renounce, revoke, take back
- draw in, pull back, pull in, sheathe

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Antonyms: protract
Related Words: eliminate, exclude, rule out, suspend

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧tract /rɪˈtrækt/ verb formal
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of retrahere 'to pull back', from trahere 'to pull']

1. [transitive] if you retract something that you said or agreed, you say that you did not mean it Synonym : withdraw:
He confessed to the murder but later retracted his statement.

2. [intransitive and transitive] if part of a machine or an animal’s body retracts or is retracted, it moves back into the main part:
The sea otter can retract the claws on its front feet.

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