retraction :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (1)

n. the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin"

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Fuzzynyms (23)

n. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of capital punishment"

n. the murder of a competitor

n. the complete destruction of every trace of something

n. destruction by annihilating something

n. (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)

n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

n. the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement

n. the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"

n. the termination of drug taking

n. refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"

n. the act of asserting that something alleged is not true

n. the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit

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Antonyms (2)

n. statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove

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