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beats a retreatphrasepresent tense third-person singular of beat a retreat to hasten away from something dangerous or frighteningSeeing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, the troops beat a retreat. bolts, breaks, bugs out, flees, flies, hightails (it), retreats, 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 it, makes tracks, turns tail beards, braves, confronts, dares, defies, facesabides, dwells, hangs around, lingers, remains, stays, sticks around, tarries |