Remind vs Retract - What's the difference?
remind | retract |
To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
* 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 3:
* 1915 , , Victory: An Island Tale , "Author's Note":
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 remind and retract
is that remind is to cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person) while retract is to pull back inside.remind
English
Verb
(en verb)- I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
- His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.
Synonyms
* put someone in mind ofDerived terms
* reminderretract
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)