Answer I see Church retracted (4)
I believe the answer is:
echo
'answer' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'i see church retracted' is the wordplay.
'i see' becomes 'oh' (both can mean 'I understand').
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'retracted' says the letters should be written backwards.
'oh'+'ce'='ohce'
'ohce' back-to-front is 'ECHO'.
(Other definitions for echo that I've seen before include "A natural sound reflection" , "Nymph (only able to repeat the last words of others)" , "one catches on the rebound?" , "Greek nymph, spurned by Narcissus, who pined away until only her voice remained" , "Sound following" .)