Retracted Synonyms and Antonyms

To move back or away from a point, limit, or mark
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. retrogressed
  2. retrograded
  3. retreated
  4. receded
  5. ebbed
Take back; renege on
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. withdrawn
Antonyms:
  1. extended
  2. emphasized
  3. corroborated
  4. repeated
To pull back in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. withdrew
To draw back:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. receded

Words Related to Retracted

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Retracted Sentence Examples

  • Piercing mandibles, retracted within the head-capsule.

  • Also the notion that snakes when attacking are able to jump off the ground is quite erroneous; when they strike an object, they dart the fore part of their body, which was retracted in several bends, forwards in a straight line.

  • This seems to have been his last attempt; for, two years later, his Bibliography of Zoology shows little trace of his favourite theory, though nothing he had uttered in its support was retracted.

  • The 1st pair of appendages both in this and in C are retracted.

  • In 1333 he was sent for to Rome, where, we are told, he first maintained the pope's authority in cases of divorce; but this opinion he retracted.

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