Definitions for "Retract"
To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
Keywords:  claws, cat, drew, paw, amputation
To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"
In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup of a group is termed a retract if there is an endomorphism of the group that maps surjectively to the subgroup and is identity on the subgroup. In symbols, H is a retract of G if and only if there is an endomorphism \sigma:G \to G such that \sigma(h) = h for all h \in H and \sigma(g) \in H for all g \in G.
To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
pull away from a source of disgust or fear
Latin re = back, and tractum = pulled; hence, to pull something back, and retraction - the act of retracting.
Keywords:  pricking, shoe, nailing, horse, foot
The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
The opposite of 'publish'. The owner of information may remove it from the website by 'retracting' it. This is done from the 'Review' tab.
Keywords:  pit, entrance, motion, machine, face
The motion of the machine away from the face of the entrance pit.
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)