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What (who) is Retreat - definition
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Retreat (song); Retreat (disambiguation)
Retreat
·noun A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
II. Retreat ·noun The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
III. Retreat ·noun The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an Asylum.
IV. Retreat ·noun The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
V. Retreat ·vi To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to Withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
VI. Retreat ·noun A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
VII. Retreat ·noun A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
VIII. Retreat ·noun The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
retreat
I. n.
1.
Departure, withdrawal, retirement.
2.
Retirement, seclusion, privacy, solitude.
3.
Asylum, refuge, shelter.
II. v. n.
1.
Withdraw, retire, give way.
2.
Recede, fall back, move back, retire.
retreat
I
n.
withdrawal
1) to beat, carry out, make a retreat (they made good their retreat; the regiment carried out its retreat in good order)
2) a hasty, precipitate retreat
3) full retreat (in full retreat)
4) a strategic; tactical retreat
signal for withdrawal
5) to sound retreat
music for a flag-lowering ceremony
(mil.)
6) to play, sound retreat
secluded gathering
7) to go on (a) retreat
8) a religious; weekend retreat
secluded spot
9) a country retreat
II
v. (D; intr.) to retreat from; to (our troops retreated from the border to safer positions; our government has retreated from its hard-line position)
Examples of use of Retreat
1. Like a military retreat, an economic retreat has to be managed properly to avoid unnecessary casualties.
2. "A date for retreat is a date for retreat," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto, even with the waiver.
3. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat.
4. In his eight years in power, President Bush occasionally attended the annual GOP retreat and attended a Democratic retreat once.
5. It became Billy‘s retreat between evangelistic forays.