Driving distance from Knoxville, TN to Lexington, KY. The total driving distance from Knoxville, TN to Lexington, KY is 169 miles or 272 kilometers. Your trip begins in Knoxville, Tennessee. It ends in Lexington, Kentucky.
To refrain from exacting or enforcing. to remit the performance of an obligation. Macaulay The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
Retract (Latin re, back, and traho, draw) is to take back something that one has said as not true or as what one is not ready to maintain; as, to retract a charge or accusation; one recants what was especially his own, he retracts what was directed against another.