All 13 Uses of

retract
in
The Count of Monte Cristo

Let things take their course; perhaps you may not have to retract.†
Chpt 67-68 *

I am going to Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses.†
Chpt 77-78

I am determined not to be content with anything short of an entire retractation.†
Chpt 77-78

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.†
Chpt 77-78

"Come," said he, "this matter will want a good deal of talking over; a retractation is always a serious thing, you know.†
Chpt 77-78

"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."†
Chpt 77-78

"You will retract this assertion, will you not, Beauchamp?" said Albert with increased though stifled anger.†
Chpt 77-78

"And if I refuse to retract, you wish to fight, do you?" said Beauchamp in a calm tone.†
Chpt 77-78

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?†
Chpt 77-78

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.†
Chpt 77-78

I will facilitate it by repeating the question, 'Will you, or will you not, retract?'†
Chpt 83-84

Definitions:

(1) (retract)
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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, in phonetics retract references changing the sound of a vowel by pulling the tongue back.