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retreatsnounpl. of retreat an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeablewe made a strategic retreat when we realized that we were outnumbered something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from dangerher bedroom served as a retreat from the frequent arguing between her parents the abandoned cabin was a welcome retreat from the storm asylums, bolt-holes(chiefly British), harborages, harbors, havens, refuges, sanctuaries, sanctums(also sancta), shelters oasesanchorages, moorings, portscovers, screensabodes, diggings, domiciles, dwellings, habitations, houses, housings, lodgings, lodgments(or lodgements), pads, places, quarters, residences, rests, roofscloisters, closets, coverts, dens, hermitages, hideaways, hideouts, lairscastles, fortresses, forts, palisades, redoubts, strongholdslean-tos, lees, sheds, windbreaks to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)we retreated to the safety of the cellar at the first sign of the tornado backs away, drops back, falls back, pulls out, recedes, retires, withdraws flees, fliesflinches, recoils, shrinkschickens (out)bows outbackpedals, backs down, backtracks, climbs downdetaches, disengages, disentangles, pulls awayabandons, departs, evacuates, goes, leaves, quits, vacates gives ground, gives way, loses ground advances beards, braves, brazens, breasts, confronts, dares, defies, faces, outbraves to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningthe untried soldiers retreated in humiliating disarray almost as soon as the enemy's onslaught began bolts, breaks, bugs out, flees, flies, hightails (it), runs, runs away, runs off, skedaddles absconds, clears out, decamps, elopes, escapes, gets (away), gets out, lams, lights out, makes off, mizzles(chiefly British), scarpers(British), scats, scrams, skips (out), skirrs beats a retreat, beats it, makes tracks, turns tail beards, braves, confronts, dares, defies, facesabides, dwells, hangs around, lingers, remains, stays, sticks around, tarries |