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Definition
to take back; or to move back or in
in 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
- Let things take their course; perhaps you may not have to retract.Chapters 67-68 (85% in)
- I am going to Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses.Chapters 77-78 (82% in)
- Beauchamp will never retract.Chapters 77-78 (82% in)
- " "I am determined not to be content with anything short of an entire retractation."Chapters 77-78 (83% in)
- If Beauchamp be disposed to retract, you ought at least to give him the opportunity of doing it of his own free will,—the satisfaction to you will be the same.Chapters 77-78 (86% in)
- "Come," said he, "this matter will want a good deal of talking over; a retractation is always a serious thing, you know.Chapters 77-78 (91% in)
- "Well," said Albert in a determined tone, "you see that your paper his insulted a member of my family, and I insist on a retractation being made."Chapters 77-78 (92% in)
- "You will retract this assertion, will you not, Beauchamp?" said Albert with increased though stifled anger.Chapters 77-78 (94% in)
- Yes, if you will not consent to retract that infamous calumny.Chapters 77-78 (95% in)
- "And if I refuse to retract, you wish to fight, do you?" said Beauchamp in a calm tone.Chapters 77-78 (95% in)
- Do you insist on this retractation so far as to kill me if I do not make it, although I have repeated more than once, and affirmed on my honor, that I was ignorant of the thing with which you charge me, and although I still declare that it is impossible for any one but you to recognize the Count of Morcerf under the name of Fernand?Chapters 77-78 (97% in)
- But I require three weeks' preparation; at the end of that time I shall come and say to you, 'The assertion is false, and I retract it,' or 'The assertion is true,' when I shall immediately draw the sword from its sheath, or the pistols from the case, whichever you please."Chapters 77-78 (98% in)
- "I will facilitate it by repeating the question, 'Will you, or will you not, retract?'Chapters 83-84 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "retract" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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