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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151. His body was arched as though he had been forced to retreat.
152. The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas, forcing the marchers into hasty retreat.
153. He announced his decision at the annual Board of Trustees' retreat on September 10.
154. Then, before she could decide whether to retreat and wait for the Empress to leave, a man murmured softly.
155. The retreat design was also congruent with the power styles of Tom Rice and the consultant.
156. There were times he would retreat to his attic room and not want to be disturbed.
157. To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.
158. If the achievements of the Thatcher years were not to be consigned to oblivion, then a tactical retreat was necessary.
159. A comic gives children the opportunity to retreat into their own world; it is a very private thing.
160. The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.
161. But the family found great enjoyment at their new weekend retreat.
162. I didn't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches.
163. The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry.
164. John Sitter writes: By the mid-century,(www.Sentencedict.com) retirement has hardened into retreat.
165. By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked.
166. Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site, people believed they could do it again, and did.
167. In 1443, the Hungarian army advanced into Serbia, and the Turks were forced to retreat.
168. Services are held regularly, and once a month prisoners are taken on a religious retreat nearby.
169. She wanted only to be free of this, for the lake to clear, so she could retreat to her task.
170. Their forced retreat, with a rope too short to reach the ground,[sentencedict.com] took on epic proportions.
171. By the marriage cohorts of 1870 a decline in national marital fertility became apparent, unrelated to any major retreat from marriage.
172. This summer, he held a retreat in Laguna Beach for 14 people, all department heads.
173. He thought it likely that the Confederates would retreat before he could renew his attack the next day.
174. And shortly, in her armies' unremitting retreat, the great fortress of Przemysl was abandoned to siege.
175. Wagner, in retreat from pursuing creditors and political enemies, was one.
176. We do not have the right to find retreat in earnest indecision.
177. As it turned out, these ambitions proved only partly realizable in one retreat.
178. Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.
179. Preparations for a retreat on the referendum were evident at Labour's Brighton conference last week.
180. So far, the proponents have answered these questions by retreat into euphemism and advance into metaphor.
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