Recind vs Retract - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between recind and retract

is that recind is while retract is to pull back inside.

to recind

(en verb)

To pull back inside.

An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.

(ambitransitive) To draw back; to draw up.

Muscles retract after amputation.

A cat can retract its claws.

To take back or withdraw something one has said.

I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won't sue me.

* Bishop Stillingfleet

I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.

* Granville

She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, / Consents, retracts , advances, and then flies.

To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.

(Woodward)

* take back * withcall * withdraw