Word Meanings - RETRACTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To retract; to recant.

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• RETRACT
  handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• RETRACTILE
  CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
• RECANTER
  One who recants.
• RETRACTIBLE
  Retractable.
• RETRACTIVE
  Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.
• RETRACTION
  1. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws. 2. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. Other
• RETRACTATION
  The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
• RECANTATION
  The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• RETRACTATE
  To retract; to recant.
• RECANT
  To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall. How soon . . . ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton. Syn.
• RETRACTABLE
  Capable of being retracted; retractile.
• IRRETRACTILE
  1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.
• PRECANT
  One who prays. Coleridge.