verb
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To treat or deal with (a topic) again or differently.
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To apply treatment to (an injury, a surface, etc.) again
verb
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To withdraw from a position, go back.
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(of a glacier) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.
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To slope back.
example
a retreating forehead
Examples of retreated in a Sentence
She slowly retreated and knelt beside Brutus again.
She retreated to the couch and sat on its arm.
Sofia retreated to her room, not wanting to fight more with Jake.
The robed man bowed and retreated to the door.
Cynthia gave their guest a hug and retreated down the hall to the Dean's quarters while Edith climbed the stairs.
Hearing this apology the Tiger and the Lion stopped lashing their tails and retreated with dignified steps to the side of the Princess.
Lanskoy informed the commander-in-chief that the army supplies were for the most part stored along the Oka in the Tula and Ryazan provinces, and that if they retreated on Nizhni the army would be separated from its supplies by the broad river Oka, which cannot be crossed early in winter.
He turned and smiled at her, then retreated, lingering at the door to the shower room.
When Dean looked up to where Edith Shipton had stood, she had retreated up the stairs.
He held up the bottle and retreated to the bathroom.
She retreated to the castle, up the back stairwell off limits to everyone but her, and to the warmth of her chamber.
She retreated a step, regretting drawing his intensity.
Toby started into the living room, spilled the cocoa, and then retreated to the kitchen.
Rhyn retreated to the wall and sat with his back against it, staring at the healer that held the woman protectively in his arms.
Hardening, Jenn turned away and retreated through the forest and rocks to the compound.
She held it with two hands and retreated to the fountain, unable to shake the instinct that said the dagger on the fountain was the same.
Everywhere Kutuzov retreated, but the enemy without waiting for his retreat fled in the opposite direction.
I left the phone off the hook, retreated back to the bedroom and with my heart racing, I closed the door behind me.
She sidestepped him and retreated until the balcony railing trapped her.
He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.
Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information.
Once she was certain Cade and his guests were comfortable, she retreated to her room with a book.
She retreated to her bedroom to grab her purse.
Darkyn's mate nodded, turned and retreated through the portal back to Hell.
Bottle of wine in one hand, Deidre retreated to her bedroom to pack.
Deidre retreated, but he took one arm before planting a hand on her head.
Bored, restless, fearful, she retreated to the back of the cave, searching it again for any sort of door or anything that might aid her escape.
A blow sent him smashing into a wall, and he morphed instantly, diving at the demons chasing his brothers as they retreated through the burnt doorway of Kris.s chambers to search for weapons.
Kris waited until five Immortals were present in the hall before he retreated to his conference room.
I saw them this evening on that knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too....
Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had only lit fires to deceive us.
The more the Russian army retreated the more fiercely a spirit of hatred of the enemy flared up, and while it retreated the army increased and consolidated.
The Russians retreated eighty miles--to beyond Moscow--and the French reached Moscow and there came to a standstill.
The four of us retreated to the first floor, amid a rain of questions while he remained upstairs.
They retreated to the other side of the small room, and he stepped aside.
She retreated to her apartment, breathing raggedly, with cold tears stiffening her cheeks.
Shaking his head, he retreated to his office.
When the sun was up, she retreated from the French doors, troubled by the lost souls and what she did to make Gabriel's life worse, when she'd hoped to make it better.
She pushed herself away from the doorframe and retreated to her room, only to find the prisoner's bracelet didn't work.
He gave his stepson an I-told-you-so look and retreated to the Dean's office and quarters in the rear.
The missile fire stopped when the helo retreated.
We finally retreated without doing any mischief--returned to sleep and "Gondibert."
That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also.
She woke with a sob, and then cried until the dark mood retreated.
One of the warriors emerged, spoke to Romas, and retreated.
Near tears again, Lana retreated to the guest bedroom, sat on the bed, and withdrew the micro.
She retreated to her room and turned up the lantern overhead to hide the light of her micro.
After the young couple took their key and fairly skipped away, the old man retreated to the back room, leaving Dean alone with the stack of registration forms.
He retreated toward the bathroom just as the door opened—and just as Dean hit the light switch and rolled to the floor, flooding the room in brightness.
When she retreated to the locker room, her lip was puffy and her body achy already.