Word "RETRACT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Synonyms:
draw back, pull back

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Synonyms:
abjure, forswear, recant, resile
Examples:
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
pull away from a source of disgust or fear
Synonyms:
shrink back

Crossword Clues for RETRACT

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MP: Half of (the opposition) are crooks / Speaker: Please ____ / MP: OK. Half of (the opposition) are not crooks (old joke) The Times Specialist Sunday 22 Jun 2025
About that pamphlet ___ withdraw it (7)
Take back, withdraw The Times Concise 28 May 2025
Draw back (7) Puzzler 15 May 2025
Withdraw, - your statement
Withdraw, ___ your statement
Take back, as a statement Commuter 17 Mar 2025
Withdraw soldiers to front territory (7) The Guardian Cryptic 11 Mar 2025
Withdraw, pull back
Withdraw concerning pamphlet (7)
Take back Commuter 14 Feb 2025
Disavow half-read treatise
Bring about withdrawal concerning religious pamphlet (7)
Take back again to land (7)
Take it back again to land (7)
Withdraw a statement about a religious paper (7)
Draw back (7) Puzzler 24 Dec 2024
Take back what you said about a pamphlet (7)
Draw up pamphlet again first (7)
Take back again, on the pamphlet (7)
Withdraw what was said about region
Withdraw the engineers" pamphlet (7)
Withdraw engineers pamphlet (7)
Go back on essential part of Scream plot The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Nov 2024
Pull back leading troops president upset (7) The Guardian Cryptic 07 Nov 2024
Recant The Sun Two Speed 14 Oct 2024
Withdraw soldiers with delicacy surrounding king The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Oct 2024
Withdraw Carter's uppity tweet at last The Sun Two Speed 14 Oct 2024
Withdraw contents of free political booklet? (7)
Were we to leave the land, would take it back (7)
Deny old president flipped over Trump's leadership (7)
Don't hold to one's statement about a religious paper (7)
Take back Religious Education pamphlet (7) Puzzler Cryptic 27 Aug 2024
Take back, as a statement LA Times Daily 23 Jul 2024
Take back the engineers' pamphlet (7)
Take back Religious Education pamphlet (7) Puzzler Cryptic 28 Jun 2024
Engineers ahead of time with broken cart to take back
Take back what was said about the pamphlet (7)
Take back what you said Mirror Tea Time 01 Jun 2024
Concerned with car spinning in Tourist Trophy, withdraw (7)
Withdraw note on pamphlet (7)
What Luther refused to do about a religious treatise
Some arboriculture tractors are able to draw back on themselves (7)
Withdraw some rare tractors
Withdraw reference to pamphlet (7)
What Luther refused to do about a religious pamphlet (7)
About that pamphlet - withdraw it (7)
Withdraw an accusation (7)
Withdraw as unjustified
Withdraw pamphlet again first (7)
Withdraw statement about religious pamphlet (7)
Take back note on area of land
Withdraw, with the Sappers, to a stretch of country (7)
Withdraw, revoke (7)
Take back what you said Mirror Tea Time 05 Feb 2024
I'll take it all back concerning some riot act! (7)
Pull in (claws)
What Luther refused to do about a pamphlet (7)
Take back what you said concerning this region
Take back Thomas Joseph 10 Aug 2023
Withdraw discontented renegade's essay? The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Jun 2023
Soldiers on open stretch of land pull back
Withdraw religious education pamphlet The Times Cryptic 19 Jul 2022
Withdraw pamphlet on soldiers
Pull in specialised troops north of zone The Times Cryptic 13 Jan 2022
Take back The Times Concise 31 Dec 2021
Take (or pull) back The Guardian Quick 30 Dec 2021
Have another go at getting most characters in 21 down to withdraw Irish Times Crosaire 06 Nov 2021
Take back pamphlet produced by Royal Engineers The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Sep 2021
Withdraw The Guardian Speedy 19 Sep 2021
Soldiers with land vehicle -- soldiers to leave, pull back The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Sep 2021
Withdraw (statement) The Telegraph Quick 08 Sep 2021
Take back Wall Street Journal 20 Mar 2021
Withdraw retweet about Oriental Jaguar up on top of tree Irish Times Crosaire 06 Feb 2021
Take back, as a statement Family Time 05 Oct 2020
Withdraw US president's upsetting tweet at last
Withdraw RE pamphlet
Unsay The New Yorker 23 Mar 2020
Trump primarily involved in Carter's conversion? Issue a disclaimer!
Withdraw renegade's empty pamphlet
Soldiers coming on to extended area pull back
Upstanding president takes time to withdraw The Telegraph Toughie 20 Nov 2019
Cancel The Telegraph Quick 03 Nov 2019
Take back ultimate piece in artefact old archaeologist brought up
Take back or recant The Sun Two Speed 19 Mar 2019
Withdraw religious education pamphlet The Sun Two Speed 19 Mar 2019
Withdraw, as an accusation USA Today 20 Sep 2018
Take back The Times Concise 22 Mar 2018
Withdraw, as an accusation
Withdraw part of army, diplomacy having overcome resistance
. Cancel religious education sermon
Withdraw The Telegraph Quick 02 Nov 2017
Withdraw (a statement) The Times Concise 08 Sep 2017
Withdraw both note and pamphlet The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Aug 2017
Take back tons wagoner brought up The Times Cryptic 03 Jul 2017
Take back tons wagoner brought up
Go back on rickety crate carrying rebel leader to Thailand
Take back Thomas Joseph 25 Apr 2017
Repudiate religious education booklet
Withdraw religious education pamphlet The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Dec 2016
Draw back in The Telegraph Quick 13 Sep 2016
Withdraw a statement Irish Times Simplex 01 Apr 2016
Take back religious education pamphlet
Withdraw pamphlet in support of Religious Education
Withdraw to learn a new skill after leaving Indiana for Connecticut
Army section given large area of land to take back The Times Cryptic 24 Aug 2015
Withdraw, as a statement Newsday 06 Jul 2015
Draw back The Times Concise 16 Feb 2015
Reverse backwards in dustcart erratically The Telegraph Toughie 14 Jan 2015
Withdraw, as a statement
Withdraw spiritual booklet?
Take back religious education pamphlet
Take back, as a false charge
Pull back, as talons
Withdraw touching monograph
Draw back
Take back, as a public statement
Take back
Take back
Take back, as a public statement
Recant
Take back, as a public statement
Take back, as a statement
Withdraw
Take back
Put your claws back in
Take back
Take back
Eat your words
Withdraw
Take back
Disavow
Draw back
Eat crow, formally
Swallow one's words.
Withdraw.
Unsay.
Draw back.
Disavow.
Disavow something.
Back down
Rescind.
Back water.
Disavow (a statement).
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