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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181. Thus, the more the mind seeks to pry into reality the farther does reality retreat from it.
182. It's for throwing at them as you retreat into the living room.
183. The slowdown in buying corresponds with a stock market retreat that cut 165 points off the Dow industrials on Tuesday and Wednesday.
184. They had survived the trials of imperial retreat, economic decline, and industrial conflict, and remained cohesive and intact.
185. The retreat of individuals to the private sector simply obscures the deep troubles of national education as a whole.
186. Before 1950, the laity had little opportunity to make the Exercises, which were typically given during a thirty-day silent retreat.
187. Beat a hasty retreat, that was what he would do.
188. Not just because of the extraordinary value it represents, but because of the unique qualities our auspicious holiday retreat has to offer.
189. She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset.
190. It is not enough for me to explore(Sentencedict.com ), to retreat graciously into the dust and floorboards of those exotic places.
191. Undaunted he would retreat, threading the twine between his fingers and thumb, before blindly pushing forward in a new direction.
192. Morrissey's retreat was probably due to a realisation that he couldn't control his own public persona.
193. News came in March that he had been captured and probably killed during the retreat from Teruel.
194. But then, instead of making a hasty retreat, they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.
195. One approach was to read these young people the riot act and let them repent or retreat.
196. When challenged, he may give up easily and retreat to his own world.
197. Appointees interviewed repeated a familiar theme: They all loved their jobs but are beating a retreat without regret.
198. With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
199. Padilla ordered his companions to retreat while he stayed on.
200. It's been near impossible for anymole to see him since November, when he went into retreat.
201. Hastily revising his plans for my career, he settled us into our Cape Cod retreat and went on the offensive.
202. Keep your paragraphs short and sweet: I have enclosed a brochure about our winter retreat.
203. We accept our responsibility not to retreat from interpreting the full meaning of the covenant in light of all of our precedents.
204. The part-time volunteers have been sounding retreat with the massed bands of the Light Division.
205. The idea is to retreat to the oasis whenever you can, thus reducing your overall exposure.
206. The advance and retreat of the last glaciation caused sea-level changes to take place there very recently, in geological terms.
207. It would be for her a retreat, a spiritual renewal.
208. Worse, in the short term, would be the economic dislocation caused by the retreat from today's multilateral trading system.
209. It had recently withdrawn the ice-breaker Endurance, generally taken as a clear sign of retreat.
210. During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.
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