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retreat English

Meaning retreat meaning

What does retreat mean?
Definitions in simple English

retreat Verb

— If you retreat, you fall back, move away from the enemy. The army retreated yesterday.

retreat Noun

— A retreat is a quiet place where someone can relax. The retreat is in the forest.

retreat

— verb (= withdraw, pull away, pull back) pull back or move away or backward The enemy withdrew The limo pulled away from the curb — noun (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat the disorderly retreat of French troops — noun the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) — noun (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset — noun (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position — noun a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet — verb move away, as for privacy The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer — verb (= back out, crawfish, crawfish out) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him He backed out of his earlier promise The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns — verb (= retrograde) move back The glacier retrogrades — noun withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity — noun (= hideaway) an area where you can be alone

Synonyms retreat synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as retreat?

retreat English » English

withdraw withdrawal retire recede flight draw back retirement pull back move back fall back reverse return escape run away retrograde refuge move backwards back up retract recoil hideaway flee back away asylum yield step back shelter seclusion recession leave hermitage go away departure solitude sanctuary running away retrogression retreatment resort regress receding pull away march off lair going away go backwards go back fly crawfish out crawfish

Topics retreat topics

What do people use retreat to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Avoid
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Social behavior Conflict

War
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Turn
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Move away

Conjugation retreat conjugation

How do you conjugate retreat?

retreat · verb

Examples retreat examples

How do I use retreat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I was uncertain whether to advance or to retreat.
Tom didn't retreat.
The general gave the order to retreat.
Many soldiers died from hypothermia during Napoleon's retreat from Russia in the winter of 1812.
The army had to retreat.
He decided neither to advance nor to retreat.
They had no alternative but to retreat.
We must retreat.
The bugle sounded retreat.
A tactical retreat is sometimes interpreted as cowardice.
We must not retreat.
Tom wasn't planning to retreat.

Movie subtitles

Uh, a writer's retreat.
She's in Sydney on a bloody yoga retreat.
So I-I went on the AL retreat the other night.
It. it all just became clear in the retreat.
You're so tired because you don't actually sleep on a AL retreat.
A successful retreat.
Out of the night came the Little Fellow, towards the dancehall, that beacon light of pleasure, that retreat of lost dreams.
Advance and force the enemy to retreat!
The order is to retreat, but before we do, shoot the spy!
A barrage of bullets forced the police to retreat.
Only you can order the army to retreat.
All forces that have penetrated into foreign territory shall immediately retreat beyond our borders.
To the shore! Retreat back to the shore!
I've been in kind of a retreat myself.
The Southern army facing Chattanooga is ordered to retreat.
Our enemy is in retreat and our standards fly over the fields of their dead.
Bugler, sound the retreat!
You go that way and cut off their retreat.
Even in my retreat, news came of that silver armor of yours.
No, a retreat.
We try to make this a real retreat.
A very clever tactical retreat, major.
I've been in kind of a retreat myself. Yes.
I shall prove the inconsistency of that remark by repairing to my customary retreat unassisted.
No code. Retreat has been ordered in all sectors.
It just came over. East, west and north under enemy control. General retreat ordered.
A general retreat's been ordered.
Do not retreat anotherinch.
The work ish give over, the trompet sound the retreat.
But if I do, no mary Meredith retreat for me.
The enemy is in retreat.
This time I retreat.
I won't be back in time to take retreat.

News and current affairs

But to say that, one must also assume that to some extent he himself is unbalanced and has shifted from a kind of guerilla warfare against the West, always with some possibility of retreat, to all-out combat.
Neo-colonialism is returning to Africa, the global project of human rights is in retreat, and the world trade system is becoming far less open.
Only an alliance of conservative leaders and powers (including a retreat by America from diplomatic radicalism), Abdullah believes, can restore some stability to the Middle East.
There is a person who might compel Yanukovych to retreat to democratic norms and thus hold off such protests -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
Monetary tightening was not the only major policy error of the 1930's; so was a retreat into protectionism, symbolized by the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases at the beginning of that decade.
Now they are in rapid retreat from that market, creating a worrying gap that Asian banks are seeking to fill.
With financial panic in retreat, unpaid salaries, pensions, and other basic state obligations are being met.
Democracy is not in retreat.
Nor is democracy in retreat.
Will it choose a forward-looking, market-driven path? Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular retreat?
This will require having the courage to face down those who would retreat behind national borders and protect existing business models.
The US retreat from Iraq signaled the limits of its engagement, and the problems in the EU's immediate neighborhood - not just in Syria, but also to the east and the south - are now knocking on its door.
Canada has staged a substantial retreat from the welfare state's worst excesses, as center-left and center-right governments alike reduced the share of government spending as a proportion of GDP by eight percentage points in recent years.
Liberal cycles are characterized by government intervention and conservative cycles by government retreat.
The game is to use international recognition of an independent Palestinian state to pressure the US to retreat from its almost unconditional support for Israeli policy.
While Lebanon and Somalia remain damaged and failed states, respectively, regional and domestic factors have cauterized the consequences of America's retreat from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Rather than the dominos falling following America's retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam-Cambodian War ensued.
Obama's regrettable retreat from support for the Doha Round is the result of many factors and fallacies.
Aside from the retreat of democracy in Russia, China - now the world's oldest autocracy - is demonstrating that when authoritarianism is entrenched, a marketplace of goods and services can stymie the marketplace of political ideas.
This must have made the retreat doubly painful for the generals, as ASEAN was previously one of the junta's strongest shields against international pressure.
In the first, the region risks a cycle of weak growth, retreat from market-oriented policies, and increasing disillusionment.
The transparency and consistency of official figures lags well behind the authorities' hyped promises about government reform, streamlining of the bureaucracy, and the retreat of the Party apparatus.
There's nothing like a high-profile failure of a Washington-backed policy to stoke a general retreat from the region, leading to cascading bank failures, economic contraction, and widespread hardship.
And the generals began providing safe havens and arms to a motley assortment of anti-Indian rebel movements that would wreak havoc in India's northeastern states and retreat to sanctuaries in the newly-renamed Myanmar.
Still, the worry at Davos was that there would be a retreat from even our flawed globalization, and that poor countries would suffer the most.

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