Both Uses

retract
in
The House of Hades
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Oars won't retract.†
p. 195.4
She noticed he hadn't retracted the spearhead on his broom since their fight with the arai.†
p. 295.6 *

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