Retract vs Annul - What's the difference?
retract | annul |
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 formally revoke the validity of.
To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.
In lang=en terms the difference between retract and annul
is that retract is to take back or withdraw something one has said while annul is to dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.As verbs the difference between retract and annul
is that retract is to pull back inside while annul is to formally revoke the validity of.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)
