retract

1. (obsolete)An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.

2. (obsolete)A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.

3. (obsolete)A subgroup of a given group such that there is a surjective endomorphism from the ambient group to the subgroup which is constant on the subgroup; in this case the subgroup is a retract of the ambient group. In symbols: H in G is a retract of G if there exists a surjective homomorphism σ from G to H with σ|_H= operatorname id.

4. (obsolete)The target of a retraction.

5. (obsolete)Synonym of retreat (“an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing”).

1. I would like to retract my previous statement.

   Я хотів би забрати мою попередню заяву. — victorq10

   ruЯ хотел бы взять назад своё предыдущее заявление. — diana_brain

   deIch würde gerne meine vorhergehende Erklärung widerrufen. — MUIRIEL

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2. Tom retracted his confession.

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3. The cat retracted its claws.

   deDie Katze zog ihre Krallen ein. — Wolf

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4. I won't retract that statement.

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5. Tom didn't retract his statement.

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