Crossword-Solution: RETRACTION 10 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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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.
Confidence Henry James 2006
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.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
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.
The Purcell Papers Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 2008
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.
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole 1996
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.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

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…
Sheri Cobb South The Weaver Takes a Wife
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.
Roxanne Gay
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 …
Beatrix Campbell Stolen Voices: The People And Politics Behind The Campaign To Discredit Childhood Testimony
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2011).