Definitions for retreat

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retreat re·treat

Spelling: [ri-treet]

IPA: /rɪˈtrit/

Retreat is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in retreat (aeerrtt).

Definitions for retreat

noun

1. the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
2. the act of withdrawing, as into safety or privacy; retirement; seclusion.
3. a place of refuge, seclusion, or privacy:
4. an asylum, as for the insane.
5. a retirement or a period of retirement for religious exercises and meditation.
6. Military. a flag-lowering ceremony held at sunset on a military post. the bugle call or drumbeat played at this ceremony.
7. the recession of a surface, as a wall or panel, from another surface beside it.

Idioms

1. beat a retreat, to withdraw or retreat, especially hurriedly or in disgrace.

verb (used without object)

1. to withdraw, retire, or draw back, especially for shelter or seclusion.
2. to make a retreat:
3. to slope backward; recede:
4. to draw or lead back.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to treat again.

Origin of retreat

1300-50; (noun) Middle English retret Old French, variant of retrait, noun use of past participle of retraire to draw back Latin retrahere (re- re- + trahere to draw; s

Examples for retreat

With falling temperatures, retreat has become a much more attractive option than before.

Finally, a squad of reinforcements arrived and they were able to retreat.

The Czar might retreat until his pursuers perished of fatigue and hunger.

America, Stephens writes, is not necessarily in “decline” but rather “retreat.”

Unless we are fortunate enough to find some, retreat is inevitable.

A few shots were exchanged, and Melton was compelled to retreat.

If we fail, there must be a retreat westwards at least seventy miles.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

The law professor, Benny Tai, urged the students to “retreat and take the spirit of the Umbrella Movement into the community.”

Doyle had received news, which occasioned him to retreat for Camden.