Retracts vs Loses - What's the difference?
retracts | loses |
(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.
(lose) Misplaces.
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
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, title= To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
* Shakespeare
To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
* Dryden
To shed (weight).
To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
(informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
* Baxter
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 556:
To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
(archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.12:
As a verb retracts
is (retract).As a noun loses is
.retracts
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(head)retract
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(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)
Synonyms
* take back * withcall * withdrawSee also
* unsay * unspeakloses
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(head)Anagrams
* * * ----lose
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) losen, from (etyl) .Verb
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- I lost my way in the forest.
- He hath lost his fellows.
- I fought the battle bravely which I lost , / And lost it but to Macedonians.
- O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
- This lost Catholicism any semblance of a claim to special status, and also highlighted the gains which other religious formations had derived from the Revolution.
- I lost a part of what he said.
- How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
Usage notes
* Do not confuse lose with loose .Synonyms
* (sense, cause to cease to be in one's possession) leave behind, mislay * * drop, shed * * * ditch, drop, dump, get rid of, jettison * * (last)Antonyms
* (sense, cause to cease to be in one's possession) come across, discover, find, gain, acquire, procure, get, pick up, snag * win * gain, put on * * find * pick up * (fail to be the winner) come first, winDerived terms
* lose heart * lose it * lose one's cool * lose one's head * lose one's life * lose one's lunch * lose one's marbles * lose one's mind * lose one's patience * lose one's rag * lose one's temper * lose one's way * lose out * lose patience * lose time * no love lostEtymology 2
From (etyl) (los), (loos), from (etyl) .Noun
- That much he feared least reprochfull blame / With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore; / Besides the losse of so much loos and fame […].