retract
verb- [transitive] retract something (formal)
to say that something you have said earlier is not true or correct or that you did not mean it 撤销,收回(说过的话) - [transitive] retract something (formal)
to refuse to keep an agreement, a promise, etc. 撤回,收回(协议、承诺等) to retract an offer 撤销提议
- [intransitive, transitive] (specialist)
to move back into the main part of something; to pull something back into the main part of something 缩回;拉回
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin retract- ‘drawn back’, from the verb retrahere (from re- ‘back’ + trahere ‘drag’); the senses ‘withdraw (a statement)’ and ‘go back on’ via Old French from retractare ‘reconsider’ (based on trahere ‘drag’).