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retreat
noun as in departure
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noun as in place one goes for peace
verb as in pull back, go away
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Example Sentences
That score was characteristically smart, slamming on the brakes and stepping out into the blind-side to cross as Samoa were retreating.
Instead, a good 50% of the tracks retreat to safer ground - slowly strummed songs of devotion, packed with valentine card sentiments.
They also run online meetings for Sisters in Service members who live further afield, and they are looking at organising fitness activities and residential retreats.
St Catherine's Monastery has endured many upheavals through the past millennium and a half but, when the oldest of the monks at the site originally moved there, it was still a remote retreat.
Since coming to office this year, the US vice president has repeatedly criticised measures like the UK's Online Safety Act and claimed free speech in Europe was "in retreat".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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