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retract
English
- 🔊 use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
- 🔊 pull inward or towards a center“The pilot drew in the landing gear”
- 🔊 pull away from a source of disgust or fear
- 🔊 formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure“He retracted his earlier statements about his religion”
Spanish
- 🔊 retractar to retract, to take back (one's words)
- 🔊 retractar to retract, to recant, to take back (one's words)