Retract: alternatives and connections

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to f…

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To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly diso…

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shr…

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An offensive smell; a stench.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.

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To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…

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To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;…

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To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.

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To turn or bend inward.

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To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.

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The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

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The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

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To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

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To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.

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To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract…

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To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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