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- English Word Retread Definition To tread again.
- English Word Retreat Definition The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
- English Word Retreat Definition The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
- English Word Retreat Definition The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
- English Word Retreat Definition The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
- English Word Retreat Definition A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
- English Word Retreat Definition A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
- English Word Retreat Definition A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
- English Word Retreat Definition To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
- English Word Retreated Definition of Retreat
- English Word Retreatful Definition Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
- English Word Retreating Definition of Retreat
- English Word Retreatment Definition The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira.
- English Word Retrench Definition To cut off; to pare away.
- English Word Retrench Definition To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
- English Word Retrench Definition To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- English Word Retrench Definition To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.
- English Word Retrench Definition To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
- English Word Retrenched Definition of Retrench
- English Word Retrenching Definition of Retrench