Definition of Retreat

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Retreat

The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.

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.

The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.

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.

A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.

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.

To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

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Retreat Quotations

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
C. Wright Mills

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
William Lloyd Garrison

Retreat Translations

retreat in Dutch is aftrekken, de aftocht blazen
retreat in French is retraite
retreat in Latin is terga dare, recedentia, recipio recepi receptum
retreat in Portuguese is recuo
retreat in Spanish is retirada, retirado

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