Vi fant 8 definisjoner av retract på engelsk.
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| retract - use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | ||
| pull back, draw back | ||
| pull strain abnormally; "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition" | ||
| retract - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" | ||
| abjure, recant, forswear, resile | ||
| disown, renounce, repudiate cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" | ||
| retract - pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws" | ||
| draw in | ||
| attract, pull in, draw in, pull, draw exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away; "the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies" | ||
| introvert, invaginate turn inside; "He introverted his feelings" | ||
| retract - pull away from a source of disgust or fear | ||
| shrink back | ||
| flinch, funk, quail, cringe, wince, squinch, recoil, shrink draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" | ||
