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How to pronounce “retractor”
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Pronunciation guide for retractor
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of retractor with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal
instead, they rely on retractor muscles to pull themselves along.
- Definition summary
- One who, or that which, retracts.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce retractor
Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal
instead, they rely on retractor muscles to pull themselves along.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “retractor”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- (chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- (zoology) A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- [Verb]
- first-person singular present passive indicative of retractō
- [Adjective]
- retracting
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