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What does retracts mean?

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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retract
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A bungee retracts, while a knot on a cord through the hole limits the amount the button can be pulled out.
One moves the paper bail and the other retracts the friction rollers and displaces the paper bail by about 3mm.
The nerve, however, is severed at the preformed autotomy breakage plane and the nerve stub retracts into the coxal stump.
When the plunger is moved by means of a button or lever assembly at one end of the pin, the locking element retracts.
John finally confesses to Danforth, but retracts his confession when he refuses to have the paper that he signed hung up on the church door.
Using the same bicoronal incision, the neurosurgeon retracts the scalp to expose the cranium from the coronal suture to the lambdoidal suture.

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