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Withdraw pamphlet supporting monarch's return
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retract
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES retract a confession (= say that a confession you made was not true ) ▪ Though he had confessed to the police, Gerrards later retracted his confession. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN statement ▪ Mori has apologized, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pull back inside. 2 (context ambitransitive English) To draw back; to draw up. 3 (context transitive English) To take back or withdraw something one has said. 4 To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [syn: abjure , recant , forswear , resile ] pull away from a source of disgust or fear [syn: ...
Usage examples of retract.
As the second wave came in, around 0857, amphtracs of the first were beginning to retract, passing through the second, third and fourth waves with expert helmsmanship.
The sun has burned away the mist, disclosing an almost solid mass of transports to seaward, beaches swarming with amphtracs and men, troops moving through cornfields toward the tableland, landing craft forming waves, earlier waves retracting.
Should the king, they said, be able by force of arms to prevail over the parliament of England, and reestablish his authority in that powerful kingdom, he will undoubtedly retract all those concessions which, with so many circumstances of violence and indignity, the Scots have extorted from him.
As soon as Manesh was airborne, he retracted the gear and lowered the nose, almost instantly feeling the pressure of the seat against his back when the sudden loss of drag allowed the craft to reach three hundred knots in a few more seconds.
The alternatives were retracting their steps, or making a northward detour towards the sea, back into a terrain of sandy soil and marram grass.
At the last moment, when repentance did not avail, Derwentwater retracted the declarations of loyalty he had made at his trial, and died protesting his unswerving fidelity to the House of Stuart.
Doing as directed, the quarrier retracted its scoop and waved an immense grab in the air.
Doing as directed, the quarrier retracted its scoop and heaved an immense grab in the air.
It enclosed him more firmly and retracted the foreskin, again lofting the organ for inspection.
When finished the arms retracted into the sides of the machines, which now presented appearances smooth as the armed retriever, though silver in colour instead of copper.
It plucked the clip from the human hand before the man could react and retracted, clip and all, within the cylindrical interior.
But then, just as he retracted his other confessions, so he retracted the confession that he had killed his wife Rena.
Also, although he was to change his version of the events surrounding the deaths of his victims, he never once retracted his explanation that he had met Lucy Partington before the night she disappeared in December 1973.
Square not found human remains that afternoon, Frederick West would certainly have retracted his first confession completely, and may even have walked out of Gloucester police station a free man once again.
Even when he privately retracted his initial confessions, telling Howard Ogden that she had been responsible, he then changed his mind again, wrapping himself once more in his own inner narrative of their love-story.