0 present participle of retract
1 to take back an offer or statement, etc. or admit that a statement was false:
retract an invitation/confession/promise
When questioned on TV, he retracted his allegations.
That is, foot alignment pulls the rightmost foot away from the right edge, but lapse avoidance prevents it from retracting further back than the antepenult.
This, in turn, requires mechanisms for both making assumptions and then retracting them if and when they turn out not to be true.
The user wants to control the design process by retracting the design decision made by the tool.
When the tape was pulled out, a small toy was placed in the ring and pulled along by retracting the tape.
Aortic cannulation was aided by retracting the right atrial appendage inferiorly and the aorta into the field.
As in theory revision, the problem of retracting a fact, a rule, or a set of rules should be addressed too.
At retracting edges, large actin bundles were characteristically associated with prominent focal adhesions that slid during retraction (not shown).
The capacity of retracting a collagen matrix is lost by dermatosparactic skin fibroblast.
