Crossword clues for retracted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retract \Re*tract"\ (r[-e]*tr[=a]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retracting.] [F. r['e]tracter, L. retractare, retractatum, to handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw back. See Retreat.]
To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
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To 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. -
To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. [Obs.]
--Woodward.Syn: To recall; withdraw; rescind; revoke; unsay; disavow; recant; abjure; disown.
Wiktionary
1 withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat 2 (context linguistics English) (''of a sound'') pronounced further back in the vocal tract v
(en-past of: retract)
WordNet
adj. drawn back and in; "a cat with retracted claws"
Usage examples of "retracted".
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.
He retracted his claws, balled his hands into fists and bent over double gasping for air.
The rough edge of his retracted claw on her cheek made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end.
Schofield then saw Nero walk slowly toward the alcove and reach for the button that retracted the bridge.
A pair of doors very like the pressure doors in a human spacecraft was retracted into the walls of the corridor.
For a moment his hand rippled with life, with fur, fingers bursting as claws clicked on the wooden floor, then retracted painfully.
His claws could be rapidly extended through muscles, ligaments and tendons when needed or retracted when not in use.
Eliot, which they did so effectually that he retracted his censure in his next sermon.
The discourse and the conversation that followed again melted the Sachem, and he repented and retracted, although he continued an unsafe and unstable man.