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retreat
[ ri-treet ]
noun
- the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
Antonyms:
- the act of withdrawing, as into safety or privacy; retirement; seclusion.
Synonyms: ,
- a place of refuge, seclusion, or privacy:
The library was his retreat.
Synonyms:
- an asylum, as for the insane.
- a retirement or a period of retirement for religious exercises and meditation.
- Military.
- a flag-lowering ceremony held at sunset on a military post.
- the bugle call or drumbeat played at this ceremony.
- the recession of a surface, as a wall or panel, from another surface beside it.
verb (used without object)
- to withdraw, retire, or draw back, especially for shelter or seclusion.
Synonyms:
Antonyms: ,
- to make a retreat:
The army retreated.
Antonyms: ,
- to slope backward; recede:
a retreating chin.
- to draw or lead back.
retreat
/ ɪˈٰː /
verb
- military to withdraw or retire in the face of or from action with an enemy, either due to defeat or in order to adopt a more favourable position
- to retire or withdraw, as to seclusion or shelter
- (of a person's features) to slope back; recede
- tr chess to move (a piece) back
noun
- the act of retreating or withdrawing
- military
- a withdrawal or retirement in the face of the enemy
- a bugle call signifying withdrawal or retirement, esp (formerly) to within a defended fortification
- retirement or seclusion
- a place, such as a sanatorium or monastery, to which one may retire for refuge, quiet, etc
- a period of seclusion, esp for religious contemplation
- an institution, esp a private one, for the care and treatment of people who are mentally ill, infirm, elderly, etc
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ٰa adjective
- ·ٰİ noun
- ·ٰi adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of retreat1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of retreat1
Idioms and Phrases
- beat a retreat, to withdraw or retreat, especially hurriedly or in disgrace.
More idioms and phrases containing retreat
see beat a retreat .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In the face of febrile bond markets, this week the faint sound of the bugle of retreat on the US trade war got louder.
Reverting to the national system by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which California has used since 1972, would be a major retreat for the embattled State Bar.
Ukrainian forces have been in retreat in Kursk in recent months, facing 70,000 Russian troops and heavy drone attacks as part of Russia's drive to regain the territory.
These days, the group’s number have dwindled, but some followers still live near the retreat, and adherents of the faith and their families visit in the summer for spiritual conclaves.
"We are trying to get the site to a phase called 'safe store', which means a lot of dismantling, demolition, carefully decontaminating items on site and then retreating the site back to a safe store."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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