retreat

retreat is a 7-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
2. noun. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
7. noun. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
9. noun. the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
10. noun. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

    "the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity"

    Synonyms: retirement

11. noun. (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat

    "the disorderly retreat of French troops"

12. noun. an area where you can be alone

    Synonyms: hideaway

13. noun. (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
14. noun. (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
15. noun. a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
16. verb. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

    "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"

    "He backed out of his earlier promise"

    Synonyms: crawfish, withdraw

17. verb. pull back or move away or backward

    "The enemy withdrew"

    "The limo pulled away from the curb"

    Synonyms: recede, retire, withdraw

18. verb. move back

    "The glacier retrogrades"

    Synonyms: retrograde

19. verb. move away, as for privacy

    "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"

Synonyms

retirement, hideaway, crawfish, withdraw, recede, retire, retrograde

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in retreat:

ettarre, treater

Common word forms

retreats, retreatal, retreated, retreater, retreatful, retreating, retreatment

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for RETREAT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.