WikiWord

English

retracted

verb

Meaning

  1. To pull back inside.
  2. To draw back; to draw up.
  3. To take back or withdraw something one has said.
  4. To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.
  5. Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat
  6. (of a sound) pronounced further back in the vocal tract
  7. Couped by a line diagonal to the main direction

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

backward(English)retreat(English)reversed(English)returned(English)removed(English)cancelled(English)retired(English)re-entry(English)retraction(English)retract(English)confession(English)inwards(English)

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
retracted — meaning and etymology | WikiWord