What is the meaning of Retract?

  1. To pull (something) back or back inside.

    To pull (something) back or back inside.

    To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.

    To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).

    To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.

    To hold back (something); to restrain.

    To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.

    An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.

    A pulling back, especially of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.

    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: in is a retract of if there exists a surjective homomorphism from to with .

    The target of a retraction.

    Synonym of retreat (an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing)

    1. To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
    2. To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
    3. To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.

      To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.

      To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.

      To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.

      Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).

      1. To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
      2. Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
      3. To change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.

      To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.

      Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.

      To change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.

      Source: wiktionary.org