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beaten a retreat
Synonyms and Antonyms of beaten a retreat
- Seeing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, the troops beat a retreat.
absconded, cleared out, decamped, eloped, escaped, got (away) (or gotten (away)), got out (or gotten out), lammed, lit (or lighted out), made off, mizzled [chiefly British], scarpered [British], scatted, scrammed, skipped (out), skirred
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