Definition for Retreat:

• To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

Synonyms for Retreat:

• n.

  •
  • retraction,
  • progress,
  • departure,
  • revise,
  • reversal,
  • convert,
  • renounce,
  • adapt,
  • removal,
  • withdrawal,
  • going,
  • backpedal,
  • evacuation,
  • retrogression,
  • capitulate.
  •
  • cover,
  • harbor,
  • seclusion,
  • cell,
  • port,
  • volte-face,
  • about-face,
  • asylum,
  • front,
  • shelter,
  • haunt,
  • defense,
  • convent,
  • leap,
  • sanctuary,
  • cloister,
  • turnabout,
  • security,
  • resort,
  • privacy,
  • habitat,
  • refuge,
  • solitude,
  • hermitage,
  • reappraisal,
  • conversion,
  • haven,
  • shift,
  • turnaround.
  •
  • abandon,
  • leave,
  • skirmish,
  • incursion,
  • war,
  • struggle,
  • assault,
  • mission,
  • campaign,
  • combat,
  • battle.
  •
  • Beleaguered,
  • aggressor,
  • attack,
  • bombed-out,
  • covert,
  • protection,
  • safety,
  • belligerent.
  •
  • part,
  • stand aside,
  • backtrack,
  • pullback,
  • shrink,
  • back,
  • pullout,
  • fallback,
  • scatter.
  •
  • check,
  • gambit,
  • capture,
  • chessman,
  • chessboard,
  • bishop,
  • checkmate,
  • castle,
  • chess.
  •
  • cache.
  •
  • relaxation,
  • respite,
  • quietude,
  • breather,
  • rest,
  • comfort,
  • break.
  •
  • evade,
  • miss,
  • hedge.
  •
  • interference,
  • stake,
  • entry,
  • participation,
  • involvement,
  • engagement,
  • intervention,
  • exclusion,
  • intrusion.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • desertion,
  • defection.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • evasion,
  • escape,
  • disdain,
  • shirking,
  • elusion,
  • abstinence,
  • flight,
  • avoidance,
  • circumvention,
  • declination.
  •cover (noun)
  • harborage.
  •den (noun)
  • snuggery.
  •departure (noun)
  • walkout,
  • ebb,
  • egress,
  • withdrawal,
  • flight,
  • hegira,
  • retirement,
  • evacuation.
  •escape (noun)
  • hideaway,
  • elopement.
  •exit (noun)
  • leave-taking.
  •leaving (noun)
  • departure,
  • exodus,
  • exit.
  •nook (noun)
  • inglenook.
  •oasis (noun)
  • safe place,
  • oasis.
  •place one goes for peace (noun)
  • safe house,
  • solitude,
  • den,
  • resort,
  • defense,
  • hermitage,
  • ark,
  • covert,
  • security,
  • cell,
  • Adytum,
  • harbor,
  • haven,
  • cloister,
  • refuge,
  • port,
  • habitat,
  • ivory tower,
  • sanctuary,
  • safe place,
  • shelter,
  • haunt,
  • seclusion,
  • cover,
  • privacy,
  • hideaway,
  • asylum,
  • convent.
  •poverty (noun)
  • poorhouse.
  •recession (noun)
  • recession,
  • Retrocession,
  • regression.
  •refuge (noun)
  • asylum,
  • stronghold,
  • shelter.
  •regression (noun)
  • retrogression.
  •retreat (noun)
  • recede,
  • pull away,
  • draw back,
  • retrograde,
  • retirement,
  • crawfish out,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • back away,
  • pull back,
  • withdraw,
  • move back,
  • back out,
  • hideaway,
  • retire,
  • crawfish.
  •safety (noun)
  • security.
  •seclusion (noun)
  • retirement,
  • isolation,
  • privacy,
  • sequestration.

• v.

  •escape (verb)
  • run away.
  •motion (verb)
  • retrograde.
  •pull back, go away (verb)
  • retrograde,
  • back away,
  • withdraw,
  • back,
  • evade,
  • beat it,
  • go back,
  • seclude oneself,
  • disengage,
  • keep apart,
  • draw back,
  • keep aloof,
  • sequester,
  • cave in,
  • shrink,
  • depart,
  • Retrocede,
  • evacuate,
  • go along with,
  • resign,
  • reel,
  • turn tail,
  • recoil,
  • fall back,
  • quit,
  • opt out,
  • avoid,
  • recede,
  • elude,
  • decamp,
  • hide,
  • start back,
  • abandon,
  • leave,
  • retire,
  • quail,
  • go,
  • pull out,
  • run,
  • regress,
  • give ground,
  • back down,
  • lay down,
  • reverse,
  • back out,
  • hand over,
  • escape,
  • vacate,
  • relinquish,
  • fold,
  • move back,
  • back off,
  • backtrack.
  •recede (verb)
  • recede,
  • backslide,
  • flee,
  • regress.
  •withdraw (verb)
  • recoil,
  • drop out,
  • secede,
  • back off,
  • back down.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • harbor,
  • cloister,
  • pullback,
  • stand back,
  • refuge,
  • oasis,
  • haunt,
  • respite,
  • back up,
  • renege,
  • ricochet,
  • rebound,
  • fallback,
  • quietude,
  • departure,
  • pullout,
  • convent,
  • breather,
  • backpedal,
  • Retrocede,
  • attack,
  • backtrack,
  • nunnery,
  • swerve,
  • summerhouse.
  •
  • sanctuary,
  • haven,
  • sidestep,
  • safety,
  • island,
  • give way,
  • exit,
  • relaxation,
  • scatter,
  • back,
  • reaction,
  • Halfway House,
  • battle,
  • stash,
  • come away,
  • hermitage.
  •
  • reel,
  • ebb,
  • stand aside,
  • cell,
  • asylum,
  • give.
  •
  • protection,
  • evade,
  • shrink,
  • comfort,
  • cache,
  • hedge.
  •
  • pull,
  • bail out.
  •
  • change.
  •
  • rest,
  • part.
  •
  • miss.
  •
  • break.
  •arbor
  • bower.
  •back
  • fall back.
  •back away
  • crawfish.
  •back down
  • give ground,
  • pull back,
  • giving ground,
  • give up,
  • cave in,
  • pulling back.
  •back off
  • back down.
  •backtrack
  • backpedal.
  •den
  • nest.
  •detachment
  • isolation.
  •disappear
  • vamoose,
  • fade away,
  • take flight,
  • be gone.
  •draw back
  • start back.
  •escape
  • bail out.
  •exit
  • say goodbye,
  • get away,
  • go away,
  • take one's leave.
  •flight
  • rout,
  • hegira.
  •give
  • give way.
  •give in
  • knuckle under.
  •hide out
  • lair.
  •lag
  • drop back.
  •pull out
  • shove off.
  •recede
  • go back,
  • Retrocede,
  • recede.
  •recess
  • cove.
  •regress
  • turn back.
  •removal
  • withdrawal.
  •resort
  • sanatorium.
  •retire
  • give place.
  •shelter
  • cover.
  •tunnel
  • burrow.
  •vanish
  • disappear.
  •withdraw
  • keep apart,
  • keep aloof,
  • take leave.
  •withdrawal
  • evacuation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • slope,
  • abate,
  • reverse,
  • roost,
  • anyhow,
  • isolated,
  • revert,
  • evacuate,
  • go along with,
  • workroom,
  • adjourn,
  • alcove,
  • misplace,
  • shift,
  • lean,
  • hideout,
  • concealment,
  • take,
  • stickle,
  • move back,
  • cave,
  • turn aside,
  • dodge,
  • repair,
  • Coverture,
  • pull away,
  • foxhole,
  • sanctuary,
  • start back,
  • monasticism,
  • set out,
  • secede,
  • go off,
  • eyrie,
  • take off,
  • cop out,
  • elopement,
  • crawfish,
  • evacuation,
  • buzz off,
  • stake,
  • calm,
  • put about,
  • protected,
  • put out,
  • crawfish out,
  • climb down,
  • disengagement,
  • scatter,
  • renunciation,
  • shy,
  • periodicity,
  • disengage,
  • haven,
  • hide out,
  • farewell,
  • come to terms,
  • lair,
  • licking,
  • collapse,
  • turn in,
  • lose interest,
  • retirement,
  • screen,
  • rusticate,
  • tilt,
  • campaign,
  • pull back,
  • habitat,
  • dwindle,
  • leaving,
  • scruple,
  • harbour,
  • sequestration,
  • bail out,
  • step back,
  • anti,
  • draw back,
  • hit the sack,
  • scarper,
  • essentially,
  • die away,
  • ambush,
  • spa,
  • run away,
  • haunt,
  • back up,
  • office,
  • incline,
  • egress,
  • fall off,
  • recrudesce,
  • holy of holies,
  • sidestepping,
  • getaway,
  • give up,
  • bend,
  • trouncing,
  • cranny,
  • secluded,
  • fastness,
  • slowdown,
  • climb,
  • falling back,
  • dish,
  • alternation,
  • give back,
  • oasis,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • stop to consider,
  • eat,
  • fall,
  • contrary,
  • disappear,
  • get into bed,
  • refuge,
  • knuckle under,
  • truely,
  • ward,
  • hesitate,
  • burrow,
  • front,
  • pitch,
  • diffident,
  • miss,
  • beating,
  • ruin,
  • turn the tide,
  • suffer,
  • Regrade,
  • drop out,
  • aggressor,
  • cloistered,
  • poorhouse,
  • quarantine,
  • cession,
  • pause,
  • fleeing,
  • move backwards,
  • backtrack,
  • Adytum,
  • hover,
  • more,
  • ascend,
  • pleasance,
  • bowl,
  • Remigration,
  • get off,
  • reversal,
  • uprise,
  • defeat,
  • downturn,
  • safe,
  • rout,
  • blind,
  • avoid,
  • back,
  • positively,
  • scram,
  • belligerent,
  • parting,
  • Recreance,
  • privy,
  • adapt,
  • subterfuge,
  • run out,
  • get worse,
  • studio,
  • renege,
  • comfort,
  • go away,
  • balk,
  • segregation,
  • hedge,
  • fallback,
  • stick at,
  • recall,
  • hem and haw,
  • decamp,
  • beat a retreat,
  • bashful,
  • reaction,
  • thrashing,
  • departure,
  • plunge,
  • arbour,
  • descend,
  • hang back,
  • acknowledge,
  • attack,
  • duck,
  • bed,
  • Avolation,
  • diminish,
  • timid,
  • reversion,
  • inglenook,
  • surrender,
  • about-face,
  • summerhouse,
  • elude,
  • desertion,
  • giving up,
  • think twice,
  • retreating,
  • cubby,
  • giving over,
  • make oneself scarce,
  • run back,
  • push off,
  • fold,
  • humility,
  • however,
  • remission,
  • even,
  • fall asleep,
  • flinch,
  • entry,
  • bomb shelter,
  • go,
  • ark,
  • Almshouse,
  • turnabout,
  • inversion,
  • rise,
  • unsay,
  • ebb,
  • hegira,
  • last resort,
  • keel,
  • seclusion,
  • skedaddle,
  • assault,
  • struggle,
  • sanctum sanctorum,
  • keep apart,
  • concede,
  • beetle off,
  • anyway,
  • lay down,
  • taboo,
  • Privatization,
  • bend down,
  • retiring,
  • ladle out,
  • rebound,
  • prison,
  • nook,
  • say goodbye,
  • slump,
  • protection,
  • sheer off,
  • incursion,
  • vacate,
  • oust,
  • secrecy,
  • doze off,
  • renounce,
  • isolationism,
  • drubbing,
  • gambit,
  • back away,
  • fall away,
  • atavism,
  • safety,
  • merely,
  • be gone,
  • asylum,
  • turn the scale,
  • retract,
  • mislay,
  • reflux,
  • ivory tower,
  • be out of,
  • crash,
  • drift off,
  • restore,
  • break,
  • shelter,
  • hit the hay,
  • swallow,
  • fall back,
  • perch,
  • dawdle,
  • swag,
  • opt out,
  • also,
  • safe house,
  • bombed-out,
  • vamoose,
  • hive,
  • reappraisal,
  • swerve,
  • sequester,
  • go backwards,
  • drop,
  • deviate,
  • pull,
  • cabinet,
  • hidey-hole,
  • slip,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • stand back,
  • rejection,
  • regurgitate,
  • capitulation,
  • kiss goodbye,
  • decline and fall,
  • rake,
  • fall behind,
  • revise,
  • combat,
  • corner,
  • pullout,
  • return,
  • cloister,
  • solitariness,
  • retrograde,
  • closet,
  • hide,
  • rest home,
  • bower,
  • light out,
  • walk,
  • leave-taking,
  • shellacking,
  • Retrocede,
  • lam,
  • Hospitium,
  • cut and run,
  • Retroaction,
  • draw off,
  • keep aloof,
  • unobtrusive,
  • come back,
  • quail,
  • privatism,
  • shy away,
  • kip down,
  • countermarch,
  • weasel out,
  • resort,
  • respite,
  • shield,
  • go back,
  • fear,
  • just,
  • shove off,
  • quietude,
  • mission,
  • retraction,
  • apartheid,
  • blink,
  • sanatorium,
  • fade,
  • removal,
  • go to bed,
  • nursing home,
  • indeed,
  • white flag,
  • skip,
  • cup,
  • bolt,
  • strike out,
  • capture,
  • crawl,
  • hand over,
  • hash over,
  • study,
  • privacy,
  • stash,
  • sink,
  • recess,
  • conquest,
  • defense,
  • take out,
  • straddle the fence,
  • reading room,
  • unassuming,
  • balance,
  • hermitage,
  • skirmish,
  • take flight,
  • receding,
  • hibernate,
  • war,
  • aerie,
  • sanctum,
  • restoration,
  • retrogression,
  • reticent,
  • get away,
  • start,
  • subjugation,
  • shrink,
  • nevertheless,
  • funk hole,
  • blackout,
  • cave in,
  • turn back,
  • evade,
  • solitary,
  • bugle call,
  • Withdrawment,
  • hideaway,
  • absolutely,
  • acquiesce,
  • bugger off,
  • overthrow,
  • recur,
  • dugout,
  • pull up stakes,
  • retire,
  • jib,
  • give,
  • impunity,
  • demur,
  • niche,
  • remove,
  • subsidence,
  • take a powder,
  • leave,
  • Beleaguered,
  • superannuate,
  • rest,
  • back out,
  • workhouse,
  • exiting,
  • detachment,
  • conversion,
  • get back,
  • chess,
  • safe place,
  • desert,
  • shrink from,
  • defection,
  • home,
  • sequestrate,
  • substantially,
  • deliberate,
  • watering place,
  • weasel,
  • list,
  • flit,
  • Halfway House,
  • draw,
  • accede,
  • cower,
  • hit the road,
  • lose ground,
  • check,
  • battle,
  • foster home,
  • nonetheless,
  • grade,
  • resign,
  • harborage,
  • go downhill,
  • Nidification,
  • modest,
  • engagement,
  • crawl in,
  • ebbing,
  • double,
  • drift away,
  • exclusion,
  • sidle,
  • Reclusion,
  • beat it,
  • rehash,
  • blench,
  • tip,
  • port,
  • thin,
  • lurking place,
  • bishop,
  • Recreancy,
  • rookery,
  • shrink back,
  • retrace one's steps,
  • depart,
  • yet,
  • private,
  • turnaround,
  • cubbyhole,
  • lonely,
  • harbor,
  • falter,
  • abandonment,
  • fink out,
  • lag,
  • run off,
  • giving ground,
  • part,
  • reclusiveness,
  • seclude,
  • lose,
  • subside,
  • isolation,
  • drowse off,
  • exit,
  • bow out,
  • hairbreadth escape,
  • again,
  • really,
  • breather,
  • go down,
  • downtrend,
  • stronghold,
  • Vanquishment,
  • nunnery,
  • arbor,
  • intrusion,
  • authentically,
  • recidivism,
  • give in,
  • give place,
  • pullback,
  • relinquishment,
  • how,
  • kiosk,
  • leap,
  • move off,
  • wane,
  • call in,
  • way,
  • island,
  • Retractation,
  • remote,
  • up-anchor,
  • library,
  • unmake,
  • fly,
  • backwater,
  • narrow escape,
  • change,
  • volte-face,
  • hollow,
  • cell,
  • take one's leave,
  • slip back,
  • hum and haw,
  • vicinism,
  • pension off,
  • chessman,
  • give ground,
  • gazebo,
  • hole,
  • separation,
  • certainly,
  • stand aside,
  • come off,
  • attract,
  • reclusive,
  • security,
  • cringe,
  • very,
  • walkout,
  • cove,
  • cubby-hole,
  • retrogress,
  • capitulate,
  • truly,
  • decline,
  • coy,
  • humble,
  • convert,
  • sway,
  • reel back,
  • scape,
  • recoil,
  • unassertive,
  • conservatory,
  • evaporate,
  • glasshouse,
  • give way,
  • check out,
  • relinquish,
  • Incurve,
  • vanish,
  • relapse,
  • quit,
  • going,
  • take leave,
  • tergiversation,
  • dip,
  • flow back,
  • careen,
  • progress,
  • back down,
  • fade away,
  • nod off,
  • retired,
  • dwindling,
  • cocoon,
  • shelve,
  • nest,
  • ricochet,
  • call-back,
  • pergola,
  • relaxation,
  • recidivate,
  • strain,
  • set forth,
  • hiding,
  • wheel,
  • abscond,
  • ashram,
  • cede,
  • exodus,
  • castle,
  • conversely,
  • go to sleep,
  • dispose of,
  • go uphill,
  • deceleration,
  • debate,
  • reel,
  • covert,
  • back off,
  • nidus,
  • wince,
  • participation,
  • involvement,
  • countermand,
  • cant,
  • sack out,
  • orphanage,
  • put back,
  • make concessions,
  • rustication,
  • citadel,
  • lapse,
  • den,
  • be off,
  • cache,
  • decampment,
  • walk out,
  • acropolis,
  • sidestep,
  • bolt-hole,
  • come away,
  • decrescendo,
  • hark back,
  • undo,
  • move away,
  • flake out,
  • turn tail,
  • lodge,
  • catabasis,
  • turning point,
  • dive,
  • eyry,
  • snuggery,
  • run,
  • withdrawal,
  • pull out,
  • drop back,
  • knuckle down,
  • ambuscade,
  • knuckle to,
  • hop it,
  • solitude,
  • forsake,
  • abandon,
  • Strain at,
  • chessboard,
  • interference,
  • split,
  • seclude oneself,
  • think twice about,
  • bank,
  • hospice,
  • Bolting,
  • turn a loss,
  • greenhouse,
  • withdraw,
  • dispersal,
  • cover,
  • ponder,
  • secret place,
  • intervention,
  • drop away,
  • declension,
  • Apartness,
  • safe harbor,
  • diminuendo,
  • slant,
  • pulling back,
  • backpedal,
  • convent,
  • checkmate,
  • close call,
  • passing,
  • move backward,
  • mew,
  • yield.

Antonyms for Retreat:

• n.

  • act
    advance.
  • departure
    advance, coming, arrival.
  • Other antonyms:
    onward motion, forward motion.

• v.

  • pull back, go away
    meet, forge, come, face, forward, keep, continue, stay, remain, go forward, take on, enter.

Homophones for Retreat:

• root rot, retard, rotor head, ride herd, raw throat, retread, retarded, retreated, retired, redroot, reiterate, roadworthy, retort, root word.