Both Uses of
retract
in
The Red Pony
- It was a terrible thing to him to retract a word,
Chpt 4 *retract = take back something previously said
- It was a terrible thing to him to retract a word, but to retract it in shame was infinitely worse.†
Chpt 4
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