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RETREATED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who have retreated
Example:
he had only contempt for the retreated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("retreated" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb retreat
Context examples:
According to the team's data, ice advanced from the Aurora Basin and retreated again at least 11 times over the first 20 million years of the ice sheet's history.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
Redruth retreated from his place in the gallery and dropped into the boat, which we then brought round to the ship's counter, to be handier for Captain Smollett.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Having paid his debts, therefore, in the most honourable manner, he retreated with his daughter to the town of Lucerne, where he lived unknown and in wretchedness.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
No longer participating in a study; not being followed and will not be retreated.
(Off Study, NCI Thesaurus)
Pine Island Glacier has thinned and retreated at an alarming rate since 1992, when satellite observations first started.
(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)
When he started up the companion-way, I retreated, silently rolling over on top of the cabin.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He tried to sniff noses with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I retreated to my own room no more; I took refuge with Peggotty no more; but sat wearily in the parlour day after day, looking forward to night, and bedtime.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Foot by foot the Italian had retreated, his armor running blood at every joint, his shield split, his crest shorn, his voice fallen away to a mere gasping and croaking.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As she leant on the sofa, to which she had retreated that she might not be seen, the pain of her mind had been much beyond that in her head; and the sudden change which Edmund's kindness had then occasioned, made her hardly know how to support herself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
