retractedadj.1
/rᵻˈtraktᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈtræktəd/, /riˈtræktəd/ 1. Drawn or pulled back; drawn or turned inward.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling back > pulled back
retracted1643
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. xv. 57 Of the retracted Nerves and crooked Juncturs after Combustions.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 68 Men not of retracted Looks, but who carry their Hearts in their Faces.
1714 Bibliotheca Anatomica III. 307 The retracted Part of the Tunica Vaginalis.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 564 Their retracted necks First pierced.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xviii. 450 A worm with retracted horny jaws.
1934 Discovery Dec. 352/2 The wheels of the retracted undercarriage.
1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xxviv. 501 (caption) Types of nipples... retracted.
2000 S. Heighton Shadow Boxer ii. vi. 195 They look out through retracted windows over a railed-in patio.
2. Phonetics. Of a sound: pronounced with the tongue drawn back. Cf. retract v.1 7.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > lingual > articulation by
cacuminal1862
retracted1874
inverted1877
coronal1890
retroflex1915
domal1919
retroflexed1932
1874 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. IV. iv. 1105/1 As he pronounced this s to me, it sounded like a retracted (ˏs) with a rattle of moisture.
1908 H. Sweet Sounds of Eng. 37 Quite distinct from the fully retracted back vowels.
1975 Language 51 282 Less easy to pin down are the retracted sibilants.
2001 M. Montgomery in J. Algeo Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lang. VI. iii. 141 ‘Broad’ a prevails in educated, rather than folk speech, indicating that the retracted vowel must have been adopted in the post-Revolutionary period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
retractedadj.2
/rᵻˈtraktᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈtræktəd/, /riˈtræktəd/ That has been retracted or withdrawn; revoked, rescinded, cancelled.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > annulled, cancelled, revoked
derogate1430
revocate?1440
revoked1461
abrogatea1464
annihilate?a1475
cassate1519
cancelled1539
dissolved?1541
abolished1546
dissoluted1606
aniente1636
retracted1676
red-lined1966
1676 R. Baxter Treat. Justifying Righteousness viii. 192 My free Speech here maketh me remember how sharply the Doctor expounded and applyed one word in the retracted Aphorisms.
1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 281 All in vain are Pray'rs, extatick Thoughts, Recover'd Moments, and retracted Faults.
1773 C. Whiting Let. 30 Oct. in W. C. Ford Family Lett. S. B. Webb (1912) 4 Your half mumbled, half retracted promise..of coming down this week.
1805 Universal Theol. Mag. Sept. 160 The case..is too much in the manner of the retracted speculations of the author of Political Justice..to please Mr. F.'s brother clergymen.
1847 J. Cairns Let. in Life (1895) xi. 281 The Saviour could not have repeated twice over a retracted prayer.
1908 Times 29 July 7/3 A knight arrayed in a motley of modified professions and compromised principles, of altered opinions and retracted statements.
1967 Harvard Law Rev. 80 1749 A better solution would be to treat a retracted statement as presumptively true and require the public official to prove its falsity and defamatory character.
1994 Time 25 July 74/1 One can perhaps forgive President Clinton..his abjectly retracted pledge that ‘North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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