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Words related to retreat
re·treat
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depart
When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place. -
asylum
If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons. -
back-pedal
If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed. -
katabasis
a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa. -
offlap
the retreat of a sea from its shore. -
retire
a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.