Retraces vs Retracts - What's the difference?
retraces | retracts |
(retrace)
To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
(television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.
(retract)
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 retraces and retracts
is that retraces is while retracts is (retract).retraces
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----retrace
English
Verb
- He retraced his steps, and found his keys where he had dropped them.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * ----retracts
English
Verb
(head)retract
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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)