Synonyms of retracted

retracted 1 of 2

adjective

as in revoked

Related Words

• revoked
• withheld
• suppressed
• recanted
• concealed
• stifled
• reserved
• repressed
• personal
• silenced
• surreptitious
• intimate
• clandestine
• undercover
• conspiratorial
• undisclosed
• underhanded
• covert
• classified
• collusive
• underhand
• unannounced
• unadvertised
• confidential
• private
• privy
• secret

Dissimilar Words

• open
• public
• general
• popular
• unclassified
• nonclassified
• well-known

retracted

2 of 2

verb

past tense of retract

as in withdrew

to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to)

the newspaper was forced to retract the story, which turned out to be based on fabricated reporting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• withdrew
• renounced
• denied
• contradicted
• repealed
• refuted
• recanted
• abandoned
• relinquished
• repudiated
• reneged
• took back
• abjured
• recalled
• disavowed
• forswore
• abnegated
• disowned
• unsaid
• disclaimed
• revoked
• rebutted
• spurned
• disproved
• negated
• gainsaid
• disputed
• disagreed (with)
• backtracked
• controverted
• surrendered
• forsook
• bolted
• disallowed
• gave up
• backed off
• negatived
• backed down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stated
• admitted
• maintained
• claimed
• acknowledged
• declared
• asserted
• affirmed
• contended
• adhered (to)
• proclaimed
• confirmed
• supported
• defended
• accepted
• backed
• adopted
• professed
• upheld
• endorsed
• vouched
• vowed
• embraced
• avowed
• espoused

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of retracted

Adjective

On April 22, 2026, Springer Nature posted a retracted article notice almost a year after initial publication. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026

The reading assignments prepared for the judges include a Substack post by a notable climate contrarian accusing the authors of the retracted climate chapter in the federal court’s reference manual of including material by Burger and hiding his authorship. — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026

In a demo at CES 2026, Bluetooth SIG marketing VP Dave Hollander set an unlock distance on a phone across the room from a Bauer smart lock—then walked within 2 feet of the lock, leading its deadbolt to whir into the retracted position. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026

The three presenters on the hepatitis B vaccine were not vaccine scientists, and two had authored a retracted paper about autism. — Dr. Debra Houry, Time, 5 Dec. 2025

Here’s how the situation unfolded and why the since-retracted comment was so controversial. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025

Nonetheless, the global ACV market is now valued at more than US$1 billion (2023-2024) and continues to grow – something that one retracted study is unlikely to impact. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025

In 2021, Sala's work came under scrutiny for a retracted study that used flawed data. — Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

In 1998, former physician Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a since-retracted paper claiming that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children. — Dominik Stecuła, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2025

Verb

Anthony Volpe had to defend his character after the team’s play-by-play man, Michael Kay, retracted unfounded claims about the shortdtop’s unwillingness to play second base. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026

Although the journal issued an Expression of Concern shortly after publication, the study has not yet been retracted. — Dannell D. Boatman, The Conversation, 8 July 2026

As soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR’s website and an on-air correction was broadcast. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 June 2026

The journal typically adds a large RETRACTED notice across digital papers that have been retracted, leaving them available for download. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 28 June 2026

Britain’s national grid issued, then retracted, a call for more power as the buffer between supply and expected demand grew tight; electricity prices hit $740 per megawatt Wednesday evening, up from $100 in the morning. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 June 2026

One of his Greenlandic colleagues offered his own thoughts, then similarly retracted, lest his assertions affect Greenland’s new position of leverage. — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

The farm retracted those statements five days later, but continued to dispute the cause of the outbreak and contest the agency’s findings. — CNN Money, 14 June 2026

One of the few major studies that purported ChatGPT improved learning performance was retracted last month. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 June 2026