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beaten a retreatphrasepast participle of beat a retreat to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningSeeing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, the troops beat a retreat. bolted, broken, bugged out, fled, flown, hightailed (it), retreated, run, run away, run off, skedaddled absconded, cleared out, decamped, eloped, escaped, got (away)(or gotten (away)), got out(or gotten out), lammed, lit(or lighted out), made off, mizzled(chiefly British), scarpered(British), scatted, scrammed, skipped (out), skirred beaten it, made tracks, turned tail bearded, braved, confronted, dared, defied, facedabided(also abode), dwelled(or dwelt), hung around, lingered, remained, stayed, stuck around, tarried |