Retractable

Definition

retract /rÇ'trækt/ v ( fml ) ၁။ ျပန္႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ He made a false confession which he later retracted. ၂။ (ကတိစကား၊ ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္ စသည္) ျပန္လည္ ႏုတ္သိမ္းသည္။ retract a promise/ an offer. ၃။ ျပန္႐ုပ္သည္။ ျပန္သြင္းသည္။ retract the landing gear (ie of an aircraft) ❍ The undercarriage failed to retract. ❏ retractable /-ǝbl/ adj ျပန္႐ုပ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ျပန္သြင္းႏိုင္ေသာ။ a knife with a retractable blade. ❏ retraction /rÇ'trækʃn/ n (က) [C] (ဆိုၿပီးသည့္စကား၊ ဝန္ခံခ်က္ စသည္ကို) ျပန္လည္ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုတ္သိမ္းေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္။ publish a full retraction of the story. (ခ) [U] ျပန္႐ုပ္ျခင္း။ ျပန္သြင္းျခင္း။

Examples

1. The President’s political adviser later retracted this statement.
2. The cat immediately retracted its claws.