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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Retreat \Re*treat"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retreated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Retreating.]
To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to
withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
[1913 Webster]
The rapid currents drive
Towards the retreating sea their furious tide.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Retreat \Re*treat"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retreated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Retreating.]
To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to
withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea
their furious tide. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
retreating
adj : moving back or away [ant: advancing]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
n.
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
vb.
(present participle of en retreat nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
n.
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
vb.
(present participle of en retreat nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
n.
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
vb.
(present participle of en retreat nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
n.
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
vb.
(present participle of en retreat nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm r etreat ing)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
retreating
Engelska a.
(avledning en retreat ordform=prespart)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Retreating /ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪŋ/ التراجعFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
retreating /ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪŋ/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]ustupování
retreating /ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]ustupující
retreating /ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪŋ/ zurückweichend see: retreat, retreatedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
retreating /ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪŋ/ sich zurückziehend see: retreat, retreated, retreatFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ɹiˈtɹitɪŋ/
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "retreating":
boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous,
concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform,
declining, diminishing, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike,
dwindling, dying, ebbing, fading, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested,
funnel-shaped, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous,
infundibular, infundibuliform, navicular, naviform, receding,
retiring, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, shrinking, sinking,
spoonlike, sunk, sunken, waning
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
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