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Adjective retreating has 1 sense
- retreating - moving back or away
Antonyms: advancing, forward, onward
Verb retreat 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"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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Somebody ----s PP
- retreat - move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"
--2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
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Somebody ----s PP
- retrograde, retreat - move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
--3 is one way to recede, fall back, retire
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- 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"
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