retract

Object

• allegation: Following protests by the strikers, including a visit to the newspaper offices, the paper retracted the allegations.
• bid: For this reason they provide a simple way for bidders to retract a bid.
• statement: Nearly three years later, I feel obliged to retract that statement.
• roof: The Millenium Stadium, the UK's only stadium with a retracting roof, has a seating capacity of 74,500 for sports events.
• story: However, MTV was forced to retract the story, noting that Spiegel had failed to mention that he was joking.
• claim: In a correction issued on 12 March, the daily retracted the claim.

Used with why or when

• when: Let us not dwell long on the wide signaled but hastily retracted when the players started running for extras.
• what: I hope you do not retract what you then said.

Preposition: into

• body: Then, on entering water, the wheels are retracted into the body of the vehicle.
• fuselage: Nose gear has side by side wheels which retract rearwards into fuselage.
• head: Mouthparts highly modified for piercing and blood-sucking, and retracted into the head when not in use.
• nacelle: Main gear retract into the inboard engine nacelles Power Plant: Four 1,280 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 24 twelve cylinder Vee liquid cooled engines.

Modifying Another Word

• since: Witness statements from her husband suggest otherwise, tho he has since retracted them.
• automatically: Once the blade is lifted from the cutting surface, the blade automatically retracts back into the handle.
• fully: Continue winding the jockey wheel to fully retract it into its outer case.
• quickly: The words triggered one of his hands to quickly retract into his wrist.
• immediately: This, of course, is a scandalous assertion in Scandinavia, and she was forced to retract immediately.
• completely: Live attached to solid structure, able to retract completely beneath the substrate.

Infinitive complement

• create: The slim and sleek aluminum body cover retracts to create an eye-catching lightweight capsule that protects the controls and high-quality optics.
• make: Cord can be retracted to make toy dance or to hide toy in cup.