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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241. Higher-end hotels there include Thambapanni Retreat (www.thambapanni.biz), which features four-poster beds, yoga and an ayurvedic spa.
242. Arguably the most significant advance of the GUI menu was this retreat from the hierarchical form into monocline grouping.
243. Every night, I retreat to my lonely bedsit,(sentencedict.com) and sit and do some life doing.
244. This may explain why there is so little visible security at Putin's dacha, Novo-Ogarevo, the grand Russian presidential retreat set inside a birch- and fir-forested compound west of Moscow.
245. Some economists said it was a sign that the hardliners were in retreat and the ECB was becoming more dovish.
246. When the lower space needs to be increased, the internal frame is lifted upwards and then moved backwards, and a check bar arranged on the supporting frame plays the action of stopping the retreat.
247. Among them, Gold Fields is also deep into the 13 companies the only retreat into the "three boards", that is, the charged' affaires transfer of shares in the market.
248. Alternatively, you may be on vacation or a business trip over the weekend of July 6-7 and visit a theme park or go on a retreat or to a special seminar, convention, or a tradeshow.
249. This fibreglass ball chair is a cheap way to add a private retreat to the family home: if you swivel it away from the infant mayhem in your living room you are cocooned in a womb-within-a-room.
250. Like Darwin, Florence Nightingale could focus ruthlessly on her work because of the invalidism which allowed her to retreat from social life.
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