How to pronounce“retract”in English
The bodies of the dead were brought back to the nearest hospital along with a mobile dug up from the grave containing video evidence that has forced Israel to
retract its original claim that its soldiers opened fire at a suspicious convoy approaching in darkness without headlights or emergency signals. The
Palestinian Red Cresant is demanding an independent investigation.
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Definitions of “retract”
To pull (something) back or back inside.
“An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.”
An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
“[T]hey began to finde fault with Poeſie, […] ſaying, that metaphors æmigmaticall, and covert words, yea and the ambiguities which Poetry uſeth, were but ſhifts, retracts, and evaſions to hide and cover all, whenſoever the events fell not out accordingly.”
A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
“Theſe Græcians alſo that made the retract, aduiſed Darius [III] to retire his Armie into the plaine of Meſopotamia, to the end that Alexander being entred into thoſe large fields and great Champions, he might haue inuironed the Macedonians on all ſides with his multitude; […]”
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