retract
The minister will be issuing a written retraction.
She is seeking a full retraction and apology for the article.
He made it clear he was not satisfied with the partial retraction.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
concede
confess
hand
self-admittedly
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back
to be honest (with you)idiom

retraction | Business English

retraction
noun[ C or U ]
uk /rɪˈtrækʃən/us
a statement in which you admit that something you said or wrote previously was wrong:
He demanded an immediate retraction and apology.
The lawyers say the family may seek a retraction of the article, rather than money.
a full/complete retractionWe are pressing for a full retraction of their statement and damages.
The magazine will be issuing a retraction in its next edition.

Examples of retraction

retraction
These results can be applied to the type retractions problem as the problem can be reduced to the higher-order matching problem using the following theorem.
The samples from a1 to f1 retain a midline orientation that features tongue retraction.
An elementary but interesting property of retractions is that they are inherited in higher order objects.
In two patients (cases 3 and 4) the origin of the right and left pulmonary arteries were also involved in the fibrotic retraction.
Historically, the central vowels were allophonic variants of front vowels, but subsequent developments have rendered the difference contrastive, so retraction is neutralising.
With certain exceptions (see below), progressive retraction applies across an adjacent consonant (7c).
This pattern results from the retraction of vowels before retroflexes (see 7.1 for details).
One of the basic questions addressed in this paper is which coronals condition fronting of vowels, and which condition retraction.
The converse follows immediately from the definition of the retraction.
The introduction of payload resulted in a slightly slow response during small step retractions.
Essentially, retraction allows end-users to modify their input and observe the consequences of those modifications without having to recalculate an entire configuration.
Generation of and retraction from crosslinguistically motivated structures in bilingual first language acquisition.
Coronals that condition fronting are produced with a fronted tongue body, while coronals that condition retraction are produced with a back tongue body.
Cells undergoing mitosis appeared spherical, covered with blebs and anchored to the substrate by retraction fibres.
However, this weak retraction must still be sufficient to permit successive coarticulation.
See all examples of retraction
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.