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.

• n.

  •flight (noun)
  • retreat,
  • exodus.

• 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.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Retreating:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    retreat, retreats.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    falters, reviews, retreated.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    withdrawing, Retracting, retiring, departing, Evacuating, Removing, reconsidering, receding, Resigning, Terminating, fleeing, deteriorating, Reversing, Collapsing, Escaping, leaving, abating, returning, Revoking, decreasing, depositioning, falling, reducing, shortening, reviewing, declining, fading, Dissuading, weakening, eroding, changing, lowering, backsliding, waning, Subtracting, diminishing, minimizing, withholding, slipping, easing, narrowing, Quitting, deriving, stripping, dwindling, sinking, Slumping, descending, pulling, shrinking, backing, slowing, running.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dropping.

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.