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# retract

«retract» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take back something you have said or agreed to** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (retract, retracts, retracted, retracting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To retract is to take back something you have said or agreed to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/#m1)

2) To retract is to pull back into the body or case, as a cat draws in its claws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a bargain or promise is taken back; in other uses a cat's claws or a snail's horns go in

### examples

- They could not retract the bargain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/#x1)
- I wish to retract what I said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/#x2)
- The cat can retract its claws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «retract» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retract/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.