retracted

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Verb

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retracted

  1. simple past and past participle of retract

Adjective

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retracted

  1. Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.
  2. (phonetics, of a sound) Pronounced further back in the vocal tract.
    Synonym: backed
    Antonyms: advanced, fronted
    • 1987, Rex Burns, Suicide Season, Viking, →ISBN, page 109:
      My guess is that he substitutes a schwa sound for the retracted r in final position.
  3. (heraldry) Couped bendwise: cut off by a line diagonal to the main direction.
    • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 1:
      Pale, retracted, that is, shortened. It is a French term, used when pales are borne cut off, either pendent from the chief, or issuant from the base, which should be particularly noticed in the blazon.
    • 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
      RETRACTED, said of charges when borne one shorter than another; as, three pales or palets issuant from the chief, retracted, that is, cut off bend ways, and hanging of different lengths.

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  • 1897, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary, page 5126:
    retracted [...] 1. In her., couped by a line diagonal to their main direction : said of ordinaries or subordinaries : thus, three bars or pales are retracted when cut off bendwise or bendwise sinister.

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