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— English words —

• retreat n. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
• retreat n. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
• retreat n. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
• retreat n. (Rare and obsolete, euphemistic) A peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory.
• retreat n. A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
• retreat n. A period of meditation, prayer or study.
• retreat n. Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
• retreat n. A signal for a military withdrawal.
• retreat n. A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
• retreat n. A military ceremony to lower the flag.
• retreat n. (Chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
• retreat v. To withdraw from a position, go back.
• retreat v. (Of a glacier) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.
• retreat v. To slope back.
• retreat v. Alternative spelling of re-treat.
• re-treat v. (Transitive) To treat or deal with (a topic) again or differently.
• re-treat v. (Transitive) To apply treatment to (An injury, a surface, etc.) again.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • retreat n. A period of meditation, prayer or study; retreat.
  • retreat n. A location for such activities.

— English words, defined in German —

• retreat V. Zurückziehen.
• retreat V. Zurückweichen.

— English words, defined in French —

• retreat n. (Militaire) Repli, retraite, recul.
• retreat n. (Sens figuré) Refuge, abri.
• retreat v. (Militaire) Se replier.
• retreat v. Se retirer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• retreat s. Retirada, repliegue.
• retreat s. Refugio.
• retreat s. En religión Retiro espiritual.
• retreat v. Retirarse.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• retreat s. Retirada.
• retreat s. Retiro.
• retreat v. Recuar.

89 English words from 19 English definitions

act activities affording again Alternative and apply attack back base bugle call ceremony Chess dangerous deal deal␣with defecate differently direction drumbeat due due␣to enemy etc euphemistic flag for force forward from generally glacier go␣back injury lavatory location lower lowering meditation military move obsolete of␣a of␣a␣piece outhouse peaceful period piece place position prayer privacy pulling quiet Rare receding retirement retreat reversing seclusion security shrink shrink␣back signal signaling slope solitude something spelling study such sunset surface temperatures the threatened topic Transitive treat treatment unpleasant urinate warmer which with withdraw withdrawal withdrawing

6 English words from 13 foreign definitions

abri Refuge Refugio replier retirer Sens

16 foreign words from 13 foreign definitions

espiritual figuré Militaire Recuar recul religión Repli repliegue Retirada Retirarse Retiro retraite Sens␣figuré Se␣replier Zurückweichen Zurückziehen

20 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

retreats retreated retreater retreatant retreaters retreatest retreateth retreatful retreating retreatism retreatist retreatants retreatings retreatists retreatlike retreatment re-treatment retreatments re-treatments retreatingness

12 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

pretreats pretreaty pretreated pretreating pretreatment unpretreated unretreating nonpretreated pretreatments counterretreats exposure␣treatment exposure␣treatments

12 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

pretreat reretreat beat␣a␣retreat Rural␣Retreat duty␣to␣retreat counterretreat managed␣retreat duties␣to␣retreat beat␣a␣hasty␣retreat beats␣a␣hasty␣retreat beaten␣a␣hasty␣retreat beating␣a␣hasty␣retreat

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

eat ETR rea Rea REA ret Ret. treat Treat

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Aer aer- aër- ert ERT RTÉ Rte. ter TER ter-

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

treater tree␣rat

28 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

barrette Barrette batterer berretta Carteret natterer patterer Perretta pretreat rattener reattire rerattle rerotate restater retarget retarted retrated retrates retreats Streater tarcrete targeter termater tetramer Treaster treaters treature tree␣rats

14 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

artere Errett rattee ratter Ratter rerate retear retter tarter Tarter tearer Teater terrae terret

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

detreat retread

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