Crossword-Solution: RETRACTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retraction | n. | The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws. |
| Retraction | n. | The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. |
| Retraction | n. | The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew. |
| Retraction | n. | The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “RETRACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back | 1 answer |
| Something unsaid? | 1 answer |
| Follow-up on a newspaper error | 1 answer |
| Eating of one's words | 1 answer |
| Act of eating one's words | 1 answer |
| A DISAVOWAL OR TAKING BACK OF A PREVIOUS ASSERTION | 11 answers |
| palinode | 29 answers |
| invalidation | 48 answers |
| disinheritance | 48 answers |
| noncompliance | 48 answers |
| retroaction | 48 answers |
| revoking | 48 answers |
| voiding | 48 answers |
| transposition | 49 answers |
| recanting | 49 answers |
| Turnaround | 50 answers |
| Abolition | 50 answers |
| unwillingness | 51 answers |
| renunciation | 52 answers |
| alternation | 53 answers |
| abrogation | 54 answers |
| inexpectation | 55 answers |
| Reversion | 56 answers |
| revocation | 60 answers |
| Cancellation | 61 answers |
| repeal | 64 answers |
| Negation | 68 answers |
| Nullification | 69 answers |
| regress | 69 answers |
| About-face | 71 answers |
| Veto | 74 answers |
| Ebb | 74 answers |
| Not | 75 answers |
| Switch | 76 answers |
| withdrawal | 83 answers |
| Retreat | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RETRACTION (5)
Bernard understood her--understood this to be a retraction of the request she had made of him at Baden.
Could any woman make a more sweeping retraction than that? The romantic glamour which Judy cast over this orphan asylum exists only in her poetic imagination.
This was to me a very serious subject of self-gratulation, for, besides my instinctive dread of becoming the topic of the speculations of gossip, I felt that if the situation which I occupied in relation to him were made publicly known, I should stand committed in a manner which would scarcely leave me the power of retraction.
Manfred, more incensed than appeased by Jerome’s intercession, whose retraction now made him suspect he had been imposed upon by both, commanded the Friar to do his duty, telling him he would not allow the prisoner many minutes for confession.
Chatard, Jr., mentions extrusion of the fetal membranes at the seventh month of pregnancy while the patient was taking a long afternoon walk, their subsequent retraction, and normal labor at term.
Quotes with RETRACTION (3)
Mr. Brundy, you are no doubt as well acquainted with my circumstances as I am with yours, so let us not beat about the bush. I have a fondness for the finer things in life, and I suppose I always will. As a result, I am frightfully expensive to maintain. I have already bankrupted my father, and have no doubt I should do the same to you, should you be so foolhardy as to persist in the desire for such a union. Furthermore, I have a shrewish disposition and a sharp tongue. My fa…
We could talk about the retraction of re-productive rights in North Carolina and Texas and Ohio, or we could conjure up a lot of statistics about domestic and sexual violence or women living in poverty. If the patriarchy is dead, the numbers have not gotten the memo.
In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared in the public domain, memory itself was always a false trail — these women never forgot. We are not challenging people’s right to tell their own story and then to change it. But we do assert that the chance should be interpreted in the context that created it. Thousands of accounts of sexual and physical abuse in childhood …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2011).