RETRACTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retracted mean? 

• RETRACTED (adjective)
  The adjective RETRACTED has 1 sense:

1. drawn back and in

  Familiarity information: RETRACTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETRACTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drawn back and in

Context example:

a cat with retracted claws

Similar:

backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)

 Context examples 

I believe he has retracted since.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, the permission was given, and was never retracted; for when the month was out, Peggotty and I were ready to depart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)