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retracts

vb. (en-third-person singular of: retract)

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He who confesses and repents may be pardoned, but he who not only does not repent but also retracts his confession, forswears himself, and stubbornly denies that he has anything to repent, he must die.

He knows that if he retracts yet again he will be condemned as a recidivist and perjurer.

Well, in 1564, the year in which Dee writes his Monas Hieroglyphica, Postel retracts his heresies and retires to.

When the trigger is pulled, the metal rod shoots out, but because it’s fixed inside to a spring, it retracts immediately into the barrel again.

Keeping pace with the Russian machine, the SMV retracts the clamshell-like doors within its nose cone, revealing its top-secret payload.

When, in sunlight, he feels her weight stir and slide off the bed, he turns his face deeper into the pillow, retracts his head half under the covers, and goes back to sleep stubbornly.