Crossword-Solution: RETRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retract | v. t. | To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. |
| Retract | v. t. | To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. |
| Retract | v. t. | To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. |
| Retract | v. i. | To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. |
| Retract | v. i. | To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. |
| Retract | n. | The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
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greedy person
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Sentences with RETRACT (5)
Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense and seasonable simulations, these reckless creatures too often neglect the prescribed construction of the women’s apartments, or irritate their wives by ill-advised expressions out of doors, which they refuse immediately to retract.
Could I retract my word, and take upon myself the responsibility of compromising the future of my companions? To-morrow Captain Nemo might take us far from all land.
Why not make dish-washing my balm and poultice? "When one views a stubborn fact from a new angle, it is amazing how all its contours and edges change shape! Immediately my dishpan began to glow with a kind of philosophic halo! The warm, soapy water became a sovereign medicine to retract hot blood from the head; the homely act of washing and drying cups and saucers became a symbol of the order and cleanliness that man imposes on the unruly world about him.
For a moment it had an eloquent pressure; it seemed to retract her senseless challenge, and to say that she believed, for Roderick, what he believed.
Give me a letter to her, signed and sealed, saying you retract and that she may marry me with your blessing, and I will take it to her at the convent and bring her out.
Quotes with RETRACT (3)
It's a most peculiar psychology — this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is based on faith too!' in that angry-triumphal tone, rather than as a compliment? And a rather dangerous compliment to give, one would think, from their perspective. If science is based on 'faith', then science is of the same kind as religion — directly comparable. If science is a re…
To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and t…
She traced the dragon’s body on his biceps where it transitioned into rope. “I just thought it would be more difficult. After all this time, the heartache, the waiting, the despairing and giving up, the pure pissed-offness of dealing with near misses…" She blew out a breath. “And there it is. With you, easy as breathing. ‘I’m in love with you.’ You said it and meant it. It changes the universe, but the way throwing a stone in a pond does. All those ripples. It's…amazing.” She…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).