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What does retract mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word retract? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To pull back inside.
  2. (transitive) To draw back; to draw up.
  3. (transitive) To take back or withdraw something one has said.
  4. To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.
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Since the gear had a shorter strut, it could fold aft and retract within the chord of the wing.
I will retract my tuition forthwith and find a profession more suited to the quiet dignity of my sunset years.
The surgeon uses a wire speculum to retract the eyelids to expose the eyeball.
To credit the newspaper, they did retract the quote once it was exposed as a blatant lie.
The driver can turn the system off, which prompts the screen to retract into the dashboard.
There is a whole sequence of events that happens when those pilots take that landing gear handle and retract the landing gear.

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