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How to pronounce “retracted”
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Pronunciation guide for retracted
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of retracted with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates
They were all retracted when the animal came in the lab.
- Definition summary
- simple past and past participle of retract
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce retracted
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates

They were all retracted when the animal came in the lab.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “retracted”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of retract
- [Adjective]
- Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.
- (phonetics, of a sound) Pronounced further back in the vocal tract.
- (heraldry) Couped bendwise: cut off by a line diagonal to the main direction.
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