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retractingverbpresent participle of retract to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)the newspaper was forced to retract the story, which turned out to be based on fabricated reporting abjuring, abnegating, forswearing(also foreswearing), recanting, reneging, renouncing, repealing, repudiating, taking back, unsaying, withdrawing contradicting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, gainsaying, negating, negativingabandoning, bolting, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingcontroverting, disagreeing (with), disproving, disputing, rebutting, refutingbacking down, backing off, backtrackingdisallowing, recalling, revoking adhering (to) acknowledging, admitting, affirming, asserting, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, maintaining, proclaiming, professing, stating, vouching, vowingbacking, confirming, defending, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, maintaining, supporting, upholdingaccepting, adopting, embracing |