Definitions For Retract

verb

  • Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
  • Pull inward or towards a center
  • Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
  • Pull away from a source of disgust or fear
  • To pull (something) back into something larger that usually covers it
  • To say that something you said or wrote is not true or correct
  • To take back (something, such as an offer or promise)

Is Retracts a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Retract is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Retract in a Sentence

  • A cat can retract its claws.
  • The pilot retracted the plane's landing gear.
  • The plane's landing gear failed to retract.

Synonyms for Retract

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