retraer
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin retrahere.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editretraer (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
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “retraer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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