transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪtri:t ]
( retreats, retreating, retreated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you retreat , you move away from something or someone.
‘I’ve already got a job,’ I said quickly, and retreated from the room...
VERB : V prep , also V
2.
When an army retreats , it moves away from enemy forces in order to avoid fighting them.
The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat...
VERB : V
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Retreat is also a noun.
In June 1942, the British 8th Army was in full retreat.
N-VAR
3.
If you retreat from something such as a plan or a way of life, you give it up, usually in order to do something safer or less extreme.
I believe people should live in houses that allow them to retreat from the harsh realities of life...
VERB : V from/into n
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Retreat is also a noun.
The President’s remarks appear to signal that there will be no retreat from his position...
N-VAR : usu N from/into n
4.
A retreat is a quiet, isolated place that you go to in order to rest or to do things in private.
He spent yesterday hidden away in his country retreat.
N-COUNT : oft supp N
5.
If you beat a retreat , you leave a place quickly in order to avoid an embarrassing or dangerous situation.
Cockburn decided it was time to beat a hasty retreat.
PHRASE : V inflects