retirement, retreat - withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "a religious retreat" --6is a kind ofwithdrawal
Verbretreat has 4 senses
withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back - pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" --1is one way totravel, go, move, locomote Sample sentences: Something ----s Somebody ----s Somebody ----s something Somebody ----s PP
Sample sentences: Something is ----ing PP Somebody ----s PP
retrograde, retreat - move back; "The glacier retrogrades" --3is one way torecede, fall back, retire Sample sentence: Something ----s
retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw - make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" Sample sentence: Somebody ----s