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retract

美音:[rıt´rækt ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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v.缩回,缩进,所卷(舌等),收回,取消,撤消

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retract为短语/超纲词汇

词形变化:

动词过去式:retracted 过去分词:retracted 现在分词:retracting 第三人称单数:retracts 形容词:retractable 名词:retractability

词根

tract,treat=to draw(拉曳)

相关词

annul  cancel  invalidate  recall  repeal  rescind  revoke  withdraw    

retract


/rɪ'trækt; rɪ`trækt/
v [I, Tn] (fml 文)
1 withdraw (a statement, charge, etc) 撤回或撤消(声明、指控等)
*The accused refused to retract (his statement). 那被告拒不撤消(其供述).
2 refuse to honour or keep (an agreement, etc) 拒绝执行或遵守(协议等)
*retract a promise, an offer, etc 食言、撤消提议.
3 move or pull (sth) back or in 缩回或拉回(某物)
*The undercarriage on light aircraft does not always retract in flight. 轻型飞机飞行时起落架不一定缩回.

retract


v formal
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin;Origin: , past participle of retrahere 'to pull back', from trahere 'to pull']
[T]
if you retract something that you said or agreed, you say that you did not mean it
= withdraw
 He confessed to the murder but later retracted his statement.
[I and T]
if part of a machine or an animal's body retracts or is retracted, it moves back into the main part
 The sea otter can retract the claws on its front feet.