RETREATING Synonyms

• pull back or move away or backward

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• move to a rearward position; pull towards the back

• stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

• small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster

• large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws

• an area where you can be alone

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position

• withdraw from active participation

• pull back or move away or backward

• withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds

• break from a meeting or gathering

• make (someone) retire

• dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)

• lose interest

• cause to be out on a fielding play

• cause to get out

• prepare for sleep

• the state of being retired from one's business or occupation

• withdrawal from your position or occupation

• withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

• moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth

• of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma

• going from better to worse

• moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction

• move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

• move in a direction contrary to the usual one

• move back

• go back over

• get worse or fall back to a previous condition

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• move out of a space backwards

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• pull back or move away or backward

• use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

• pull back or move away or backward

• pull back or move away or backward

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity