Synonym: fall back, retire, reverse, withdraw. Antonym: advance. Similar words: get ready, treaty, entreat, treatment, stretch, stretch out, stream, streak. Meaning: [rɪ'trɪːt] 
n. 1. (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat 2. a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet 3. (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position 4. (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset 5. an area where you can be alone 6. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation. v. 1. pull back or move away or backward 2. move away, as for privacy 3. move back 4. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.
n. 1. (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat 2. a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet 3. (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position 4. (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset 5. an area where you can be alone 6. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation. v. 1. pull back or move away or backward 2. move away, as for privacy 3. move back 4. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. 
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91. Excellence becomes a code word for retreat from equity.
92. And I, for one will always remember that retreat.
93. The retreat was held in a no-frills hotel about thirty miles from the corporate headquarters.
94. But as an obstruction to the Federal retreat, the fight amounted to nothing.
95. Like other Whole Being participants, Roujansky said she relishes the inner peace fostered by the retreat.
96. You must never allow yourself to be crowded out, neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary.
97. He made this announcement at the Board of Trustees' annual retreat.
98. In a retreat, House leaders proposed allowing employees to return to work with pay while budget talks proceed.
99. A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction,(http://Sentencedict.com) retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.
100. She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair, but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility.
101. Pop art directly challenged what was increasingly seen as abstract art's esoteric retreat from the world.
102. Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat.
103. By the end of the 1980s central economic planning was in retreat, even in its heartland.
104. The overwhelming impression of Soul is of a science in retreat, forced to admit the inadequacy of its materialism.
105. Bill and his men would retreat to the rhododendron bushes and radio to the sniper teams on the roof.
106. But these sheep weren't posing for a rural getaway or a pastoral retreat.
107. Objects and fantasy are then used not as a means of venturing out, but to beat a retreat.
108. It was on one such retreat that he originally encouraged the Mac team to consider themselves pirates.
109. In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat.
110. Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment.
111. As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.
112. At some later date, a slight glacial retreat would weaken the dam wall and its subsequent collapse would prove catastrophic.
113. For as long as they had known each other it had been their nest, their retreat, their beautiful private world.
114. I ordered our troops to retreat and disappear like burning grass in the dry season.
115. She would install Hannah in front of the television and retreat to another room.
116. Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable, then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat.
117. He went to work on the President, telling him that to retreat now would be to accept humiliating defeat.
118. The consultants presented two alternatives, based on discussions at the last retreat.
119. On 24 September he went into retreat at Mirfield in Yorkshire, where once he thought of becoming a monk.
120. They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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