Words Containing TRACTING

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• becoming infected

• lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

• make a subtraction

• take off or away

• existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment

• a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

• a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

• not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

• dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention

• consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically

• make off with belongings of others

• consider apart from a particular case or instance

• give an abstract (of)

• draw someone's attention away from something

• disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

• take away a part from; diminish

• direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes

• be attractive to

• exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

• pull away from a source of disgust or fear

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• pull inward or towards a center