Clues for the word "RETRACT"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 74 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on February 27, 2026.
Definition of retract
- v. t. - To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
- v. t. - To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
- v. t. - To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
- v. i. - To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
- v. i. - To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
- n. - The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Referring Clues
- Take back
- Disavow
- Take back, as a statement
- Take back, as a public statement
- Recant
- Withdraw
- Pull back, as talons
- Take back, as a false charge
- Withdraw, as a statement
- Take back religious education pamphlet
- Withdraw what was said about region
- Repudiate religious education booklet
- Withdraw (offer, statement etc)
- Withdraw touching monograph
- Pull back (statements or claws, perhaps)
- To a soldier extent of space proves drawback
- Withdraw from circulating "Get Carter"
- Withdraw statement about pamphlet
- Withdraw the first old fashioned driver to pull up
- Withdraw publication on religious education
- Withdraw, as an accusation
- Take back (a statement)
- Were we to leave the land, would take it back
- Draw back
- Take back what one said about a pamphlet
- Take back what you said about a pamphlet
- Take back what you said the undercarriage would do
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - February 27, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2025
- Daily American - November 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 24, 2025
- Daily American - April 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 03, 2024
- LA Times - July 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2023
- Daily American - November 12, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 05, 2023
- Daily American - April 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 13, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 03, 2022
- And in 44 more crossword puzzles...