English Dictionary

retract

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪˈtɹækt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 古語

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.

日本語の意味

（公式な発表や声明などを）撤回する、取り消す / 約束や契約などを破る、背く

After learning the full facts, the council decided to retract the honorary title they had awarded last year.

事実を十分に知った後、評議会は昨年授与した名誉称号を撤回することに決めた。

意味（1）

To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.

Fill'd with the Satisfaction of their own diſcerning Faculties, they [natural history writers] paſs Judgment at firſt ſight; write on, and are above being ever brought to retract it.

意味（2）

To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.

意味（3）

To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.

I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.

意味（4）

(games) Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).

意味（5）

To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.

意味（6）

Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.

Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America. / What story? / Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered. I believe he has retracted since. Anyhow, he has suppressed it all. He gave an interview to Reuter's, and there was such a howl that he saw it wouldn't do.[]

意味（7）

(card games, archaic) To change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.

retracts （ present singular third-person ）

retracting （ participle present ）

retracted （ participle past ）

retracted （ past ）

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en-conj-simple （ inflection-template ）

retract （ infinitive ）