Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To take back; as to retract a statement; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
2. (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
3. (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
4. (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
5. (v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
6. (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Strong's Hebrew
5493. sur -- to turn aside... 2), left (2), move (1), pardoning (1), pass away (1), past (1), put away (12), relieved
(1), remove (45), removed (43), removing (1),
retract (1), return (1
... /hebrew/5493.htm - 7k 3988a. maas -- to reject
... despise (6), despised (4), despises (2), despising (1), disdained (1), refuse (2),
reject (8), rejected (37), rejects (1), reprobate (1), retract (1), utterly ...
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