Definition of "retracts" [retracts]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retract. (verb)

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• "Seventeen days later, when hope of finding them alive seems lost, a probe retracts from a bore-hole with an attached note: "We are all well here in the refuge – the 33.""
• "Incorrect, the skin retracts after death, giving the impression of growth."
• "Then as facts develop and the rapist turns out to be white, Alpha "retracts" his comment and says, "I'm absolved, right?" and then goes on to say - "Everyone knows lots of black people are rapists after all, so I wasn't really wrong in a general sense, just in this instance"..."