Word Meanings - RETRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract

Additional info about word: RETRACT

handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it. Bp. Stillingfleet. 3. To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. Woodward. Syn. -- To recal; withdraw; rescind; revoke; unsay; disavow; recant; abjure; disown.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETRACT)

• Abjure
• Renounce
• deny
• apostatize
• discard
• recant
• disclaim
• disavow
• repudiate
• revoke
• retract
• disown
• Recant
• Retract
• unsay
• recal
• abjure
• renounce
• Withdraw
• wrest
• retreat
• retire
• recede
• take back

Related words: (words related to RETRACT)

• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• RETRACT
  1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• RENOUNCE
  Act of renouncing.
• DISCLAIM
  To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• ABJUREMENT
  Renunciation.
• DISAVOW
  1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden.
• RETIRED
  1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. 2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank , a flank bent inward
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
• WREST
  1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.