Main entry: retreat
Definition: the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
Main entry: retirement, retreat
Definition: withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
Usage: the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity
Main entry: retreat
Definition: (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
Usage: the disorderly retreat of French troops
Definition: an area where you can be alone
Main entry: retreat
Definition: (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
Main entry: retreat
Definition: (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
Main entry: retreat
Definition: a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
Main entry: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, retreat, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw
Definition: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
Usage: We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him; He backed out of his earlier promise; The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
Main entry: retire, retreat, pull away, pull back, recede, withdraw, draw back, move back
Definition: pull back or move away or backward
Usage: The enemy withdrew; The limo pulled away from the curb
Main entry: retreat, retrograde
Definition: move back
Usage: The glacier retrogrades
Main entry: retreat
Definition: move away, as for privacy
Usage: The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer