Definition for Retreating:

• Moving in retreat; going back.

Synonyms for Retreating:

• adj.

  •departing (adjective)
  • going,
  • withdrawing,
  • fleeing,
  • leaving,
  • departing,
  • exiting,
  • parting.
  •recessive (adjective)
  • regressive,
  • recessive,
  • backsliding,
  • fleeing,
  • receding.

• n.

  •flight (noun)
  • exodus,
  • retreat,
  • Escaping.
  •retreating (noun)
  • receding,
  • retiring,
  • withdrawing.

• v.

  •back (verb)
  • retract.
  •back down (verb)
  • cancel,
  • give in,
  • give up.
  •countermand (verb)
  • recall,
  • rescind,
  • revoke.
  •draw back (verb)
  • subtract,
  • deduct.
  •receding (verb)
  • backsliding,
  • receding,
  • regressing,
  • fleeing.
  •retreat (verb)
  • abandon,
  • recede,
  • leave,
  • regress,
  • retire,
  • back away,
  • disengage,
  • fall back,
  • go,
  • shrink,
  • move back,
  • recoil,
  • withdraw,
  • depart.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • discharge,
  • desertion,
  • Favose,
  • recede,
  • revoke,
  • dwindling,
  • retreated,
  • dying,
  • funnel-shaped,
  • Harboring,
  • give back,
  • scyphate,
  • cancel,
  • Sequestrating,
  • Scyphiform,
  • bevy,
  • relapsing,
  • disengage,
  • diminishing,
  • leave,
  • Resorting,
  • fading,
  • Naviform,
  • regress,
  • alveolate,
  • retreats,
  • Roosting,
  • evacuation,
  • sinking,
  • Escaping,
  • backing,
  • sunken,
  • elopement,
  • cavernous,
  • Removing,
  • retract,
  • dish-shaped,
  • retiring,
  • missing,
  • Recurring,
  • dished,
  • secrecy,
  • recall,
  • unsay,
  • resignation,
  • retirement,
  • recoil,
  • withdraw,
  • denning,
  • shrink,
  • move back,
  • faveolate,
  • porous,
  • Boat-shaped,
  • set back,
  • retreat,
  • shrinking,
  • ceding,
  • Dishing,
  • arched,
  • Favaginous,
  • depressed,
  • back away,
  • fall back,
  • dawdling,
  • Concaved,
  • flight,
  • deduct,
  • flinch,
  • cavelike,
  • abandon,
  • navicular,
  • Capitulating,
  • defection,
  • moving back,
  • recalling,
  • flighting,
  • Incurving,
  • exodus,
  • aviation,
  • evasion,
  • secession,
  • go,
  • Adjourning,
  • departure,
  • scyphose,
  • Infundibular,
  • Seceding,
  • give in,
  • Resting,
  • hollowed,
  • declining,
  • privacy,
  • secede,
  • calathiform,
  • havening,
  • concave,
  • recession,
  • get back,
  • waning,
  • removal,
  • Disengaging,
  • Repealing,
  • nesting,
  • Cymbiform,
  • Burrowing,
  • suffering,
  • draw,
  • incurved,
  • swallow,
  • retire,
  • Retracting,
  • rein back,
  • ebbing,
  • Campaniform,
  • scaphoid,
  • turning back,
  • step back,
  • returning,
  • Cupped,
  • subtract,
  • sunk,
  • depart,
  • flock,
  • capsular,
  • herd,
  • give up,
  • Swallowing,
  • lagging,
  • hollow,
  • Flinching,
  • rehashing,
  • backtracking,
  • Recessing,
  • covering,
  • turn back,
  • bowl-shaped,
  • saucer-shaped,
  • Sheltering,
  • vaulted,
  • recidivating,
  • Evacuating,
  • Recoiling,
  • pulling,
  • cup-shaped,
  • regrading,
  • withdrawal,
  • cringe,
  • Infundibuliform,
  • Reversing,
  • remove,
  • Porting,
  • go backwards,
  • Misplacing,
  • lapsing,
  • pullout,
  • rescind.

Antonyms for Retreating:

• n.

  • flight
    standing, waiting, Staying.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    advancing.

• v.

  • back
    go forward.
  • bail out
    stay.
  • countermand
    allow, permit, sanction, approve.
  • disappear
    appear, arrive, come in.
  • draw back
    start.
  • drop out
    begin, engage, join, carry out.
  • ebb
    flow, increase, rise.
  • retreat
    advance, forge, meet, face.

Homophones for Retreating:

• roadworthiness.