Retract vs Rephrase - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between retract and rephrase

is that retract is to pull back inside while rephrase is to find a different way to say something{{jump|rephrase}} singular.

(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

(en-verb)

To find a different way to say something(jump)

* (jump) restate, reword