retract
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Is retract a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "An airplane retracts its wheels for flight."; "The collector shoes are automatically retracted when the electric handle is moved from "service off" to "lock off"."Synonyms: pull backtransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "A cat can retract its claws."Synonyms: pull backAntonyms: extend, protrudespecificallytransitive
3. (transitive)raretransitive
4. (transitive)transitive
5. (transitive)obsoletetransitive
6. (intransitive) To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.Examples: "The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use."; "Muscles retract after amputation."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (group theory) A subgroup of a given group such that there is a surjective endomorphism from the ambient group to the subgroup which is constant on the subgroup; in this case the subgroup is a retract of the ambient group. In symbols: H in G is a retract of G if there exists a surjective homomorphism σ from G to H with σ|_H= operatorname id.obsolete
2. (topology) The target of a retraction.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "Fill'd with the Satisfaction of their own diſcerning Faculties, they [natural history writers] paſs Judgment at firſt ſight; write on, and are above being ever brought to retract it."obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive)obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me."; "And yet this Pope himſelf, not many years after, retracted this Bull; […]"; "She will, and ſhe will not; ſhe grants, denies, / Conſents, retracts, advances, and then flies, / Approving and rejecting in a Breath, / Now proff'ring Mercy, now preſenting Death!"Synonyms: unsay, unspeak, walk back, withcall, withdraw, abjure, backpedal, disavowAntonyms: affirm, confirm, maintainobsoletetransitive
4. (transitive)obsoletetransitive
5. (intransitive)intransitiveobsolete
6. (intransitive)Examples: ""Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America." / "What story?" / "Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered. I believe he has retracted since. Anyhow, he has suppressed it all. He gave an interview to Reuter's, and there was such a howl that he saw it wouldn't do.["]"intransitiveobsolete
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