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Synonyms and Antonyms of retreated
- we retreated to the safety of the cellar at the first sign of the tornado
flinched, recoiled, shrank (or shrunk)
backed down, backpedaled, backtracked, climbed down
detached, disengaged, disentangled, pulled away
abandoned, departed, evacuated, left, quit (also quitted), vacated, went
- the untried soldiers retreated in humiliating disarray almost as soon as the enemy's onslaught began
bolted, broke, bugged out, fled, flew, hightailed (it), ran (also chiefly dialectal run), ran away, ran off, skedaddled
absconded, cleared out, decamped, eloped, escaped, got (away), got out, lammed, lit (or lighted out), made off, mizzled [chiefly British], scarpered [British], scatted, scrammed, skipped (out), skirred
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