abjure, renounce, forswear, recant, retract mean to withdraw one's word or professed belief. abjure implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath. renounce may carry the …

RETRACTED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of retract 2. to take back an offer or statement, etc. or admit…. Learn more.

When a part of a machine or a part of a person's body retracts or is retracted, it moves inwards or becomes shorter.

The newspaper retracted [= withdrew] the story. She was forced to retract [= take back] her statement.

re·tract·ed , re·tract·ing , re·tracts v. tr. 1. To take back; disavow: refused to retract the statement. 2. To draw back or in: a plane retracting its...

Definition of retract verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [transitive] retract something (formal) to say that something you have said earlier is not true or correct or that you did not mean it. …

The sense of the word retract meaning to draw back or withdraw comes from the mid-16th century, and its meaning was clear when Napoleon Bonaparte said, "In politics...never retreat, never …

RETRACT definition: to draw back or in. See examples of retract used in a sentence.

RETRACT meaning: 1. to take back an offer or statement, etc. or admit that a statement was false: 2. to pull…. Learn more.

When a part of a machine or a part of a person's body retracts or is retracted, it moves inward or becomes shorter.