retreated
撤退了,退缩了,撤退,退缩
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- : the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- : the act of withdrawing, as into safety or privacy; retirement; seclusion.
- : a place of refuge, seclusion, or privacy: The library was his retreat.
- : an asylum, as for the insane.
- : a retirement or a period of retirement for religious exercises and meditation.
- : Military. a flag-lowering ceremony held at sunset on a military post.the bugle call or drumbeat played at this ceremony.
- : the recession of a surface, as a wall or panel, from another surface beside it.
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- : to withdraw, retire, or draw back, especially for shelter or seclusion.
- : to make a retreat: The army retreated.
- : to slope backward; recede: a retreating chin.
- : to draw or lead back.
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That could mean building expensive sea walls, replacing and moving huge stormwater pipes and perhaps the retreat of real estate from the old shoreline.
Price indexes early next year will be compared with the sharp retreats experienced in March and April, which may push inflation to, or above, the Fed’s 2% goal.
The House endorsed a landmark retreat in the nation’s decades-long war on drugs Friday, voting to remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances and provide for the regulation and taxation of legal cannabis sales.
To build relationships and solve problems, some of these spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on retreats with employees and their families.
CEO Joel Gascoigne and the team outline the increased productivity, freedom, and strong working relations that come from a remote company and regular retreats.
Goodman retreated to house arrest at his luxury mansion on $4 million bail.
He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.
She retreated into the lobby, but only to call for backup and an ambulance.
Once you raised it, a massed army was wasting away, whether it fought or not, or whether it advanced, retreated, or stood still.
But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age 2, he had fully retreated into his own world.
Not being sufficiently numerous to hold out the town as well as the Alamo, they retreated into the latter.
Our army, under the command of General Houston, was in front of Harrisburg, to which place the congress had retreated.
Black Sheep retreated to the nursery and read "Cometh up as a Flower" with deep and uncomprehending interest.
Lannes retreated slowly on Essling, his troops suffering severely from the re-formed Austrian batteries.
As the Americans retreated, the insurgents crept up, aided by a mist, to within short range and fired another volley.