retraction (of something previously said)

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.

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

To pull (something) back or back inside. / (rare) To avert (one's eyes or a gaze). / (phonetics) To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.

Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat. / (phonetics, of a sound) Pronounced further back in the vocal tract. / (heraldry) Couped by a line diagonal to the main direction.

simple past tense and past participle of retract

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retract

present participle of retract

An act or instance of retracting. / A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.

plural of retraction