retraer
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin retrahere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
retraer (first-person singular present retraigo, first-person singular preterite retraje, past participle retraído)
- to withdraw, to retract (something)
- to bring back (to cause one to remember)
- 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, “The Other”, in The Book of Sand, page 10:
- El estilo me retrajo a un patio, que ha desaparecido […]
- The style brought me back to a patio, which has disappeared […]
- (reflexive) to withdraw (oneself), to shrink back
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of retraer (irregular) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of retraer (irregular)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “retraer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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