Displace vs Retract - What's the difference?
displace | retract |
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
To pull back inside.
(ambitransitive) To draw back; to draw up.
To take back or withdraw something one has said.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
* Granville
To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.
As verbs the difference between displace and retract
is that displace is to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland while retract is to pull back inside.displace
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(displac)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)retract
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(en verb)- An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
- Muscles retract after amputation.
- A cat can retract its claws.
- I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won't sue me.
- I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.
- She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, / Consents, retracts , advances, and then flies.
- (Woodward)