Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 17 compound words that contain retreat. The most common are listed below. Open retreat in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- duty to retreatA legal requirement in some jurisdictions that a threatened individual cannot harm another in self-defense when it is possible instead to retreat to a place of safety.
- managed retreatThe coordinated ending of coastal development; abandonment, demolition, and relocation of human-made structures; and migration of people away from a shoreline that is allowed to migrate inland.
- Rural RetreatA town in Wythe County, Virginia, United States.
- duties to retreatplural of duty to retreat: A legal requirement in some jurisdictions that a threatened individual cannot harm another in self-defense when it is possible instead to retreat to a place of safety.
- Coasters RetreatA suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- beat a retreatTo leave hastily in the face of opposition.
- beat retreatAlternative form of beat a retreat: To leave hastily in the face of opposition.
- beat a hasty retreatTo leave as quickly as possible.
- Porters RetreatA locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- beaten a hasty retreatpast participle of beat a hasty retreat: To leave as quickly as possible.
- beating a hasty retreatpresent participle and gerund of beat a hasty retreat
- beats a hasty retreatthird-person singular simple present indicative of beat a hasty retreat: To leave as quickly as possible.
Compound words 17
- reretreata second retreat.
- retreatalRelating to a retreat.
- retreatlikeResembling or characteristic of a retreat.
- retreatanta participant in a religious or similar retreat
- retreaterOne who retreats.
- retreatismA policy or advocacy of retreat.
- retreatistOne who supports or advocates retreatism.
- retreatfulFurnishing or serving as a retreat.
- counterretreatA military retreat in response to another retreat.
- retreatestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of retreat