The Only Use of
retract
in
The Great Gatsby
- A caddy retracted his statement, and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken.†
p. 57..9
Definition:
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(retract) to take back; or to move back or inin various senses, including:
- to take back something previously said -- such as a promise or opinion
- to move back or in -- such as an airplane's landing gear, or pulling your hand back after being burned
- in surgery, the use of a medical instrument to draw skin or an organ back out of the way