Synonyms of the word

retract

• v. (transitive) To pull back inside.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw back; to draw up.
• v. (transitive) To take back or withdraw something one has said.
• v. To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.

abjure

• v. (transitive) To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
• v. (transitive) To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
• v. (transitive) To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.

attract

• v. To pull toward without touching.
• v. To arouse interest.
• v. To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite…

cringe

• n. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
• n. (dialect) A crick.
• n. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• v. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

flinch

• n. A reflexive jerking away.
• v. To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
• v. To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty.
• v. (games) (of the croquet game) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

forswear

• v. (transitive) To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
• v. (intransitive) To commit perjury.

funk

• n. (obsolete) Spark.
• n. (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.
• n. (countable) Mental depression.
• n. (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
• n. (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
• v. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
• n. (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
• n. (uncountable) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles,…
• v. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• v. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

quail

• v. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, wither.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To frighten, daunt (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
• v. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, give way.
• n. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family…
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
• v. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

recant

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially…

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repudiate

• v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
• v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
• v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
• v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

resile

• v. To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
• v. To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

squinch

• n. (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal…
• v. to scrunch up (one's face).

wince

• n. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
• n. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between…
• v. (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
• v. (transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
• v. To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.