Crossword clues for retracting
retracting
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
vb. (present participle of retract English)
Usage examples of "retracting".
One moment's thought and it began to whir and click: silvery filaments began to reel out through the cannulae, retracting from the prisoner's neck.
The electrodes were jerked from his skull, retracting with a metallic clink into the case.
She wanted to put her finger tip on it and almost did before retracting her hand.
They were hissing, retracting and extending their tongues as if licking imaginary Thread from the air.
The alien clanged to the floor, retracting its limbs and eyes as the impact of the shot knocked it spinning back into the mass of spiders.
Oshi glanced away, wondering why the drones were standing down, retracting weapons into their camouflaged hulls.
Unseen scaffolding was retracting into the hull of the colony from around the ship, leaving it isolated and free.
Lorma shuffles nervously, extending and retracting her weapons in a jerky, rhythmic fidgeting.
She saw him cut one that came at him and swarm up the retracting organ that dangled from the belly of the beast.
His free hand darted out and grasped the retracting cord attached to Bruce and let it raise him, and his shield, up to the ixchitl that was preparing to feast on the mer-leader.
It apparently had no conscious control of the retracting harpoon cord.
On-screen schematics flashed by Veidt's device told him little, but it was easy enough to imagine modules being hoisted and repositioned by robotic arms, gigantic plates retracting, a change in the very sphericity of the world.
Machiko noticed that the handsome man seemed to be retracting even further into some private space.
There, hovering outside, was the remote assassin, its appendages retracting fast.
Then the besieged extradimensional entity began to physically shrink in size, its tendrils retracting and diminishing until all that was left was a tiny wriggling creature about the size of a small jellyfish.