Dictionary Entry
retract
retract is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
- 2transitive verb
To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
- 3transitive verb
To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
- 4intransitive verb
To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
- 5intransitive verb
To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
- 6noun
The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
- 7verb
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
"He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"
"She abjured her beliefs"
- 8verb
pull inward or towards a center
"The pilot drew in the landing gear"
"The cat retracted his claws"
- 9verb
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
- 10verb
pull away from a source of disgust or fear
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