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Rejected vs Retracted - What's the difference?

rejected | retracted |

As verbs the difference between rejected and retracted

is that rejected is past tense of reject while retracted is past tense of retract.

As an adjective retracted is

withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.

rejected

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reject)

    • reject

    English

    (wikipedia reject)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to accept.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

    • Synonyms

    * (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

    Antonyms

    * (refuse to accept) accept, take up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is rejected.
  • An unpopular person.

    • Synonyms

    * (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien

    Related terms

    * rejection English heteronyms

    retracted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (retract)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat
  • (linguistics) (of a sound ) pronounced further back in the vocal tract