Retract vs Recede - What's the difference?
retract | recede |
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.
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
* Dryden
* Bentley
To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
To take back.
As verbs the difference between retract and recede
is that retract is to pull back inside while recede is to move back; to retreat; to withdraw.retract
English
Verb
(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)
Synonyms
* take back * withcall * withdrawSee also
* unsay * unspeakrecede
English
Verb
(reced)- Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
- All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
- to recede conquered territory