0 present participle of retreat --
1 to go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger: --
2 to decide not to do something, or to stop believing something, because it causes too many problems: --
The government is retreating from its promises.
3 If a price retreats, it goes down after it has gone up: --
The male partner is sometimes prevented from mating by the female partner retreating into its shell.
The edge which moves with the flow is called the 'retreating edge' (the right-hand edge in the figure), the other edge is the 'advancing edge'.
This view does not produce a solution to the problem by retreating to describing subjective rationality.
In the meantime, states have gradually been retreating from the social responsibilities that characterized their early populist development.
Retreating textures elicited strong initial activity that declined to baseline levels before movement ceased.
In exploration, he advances, fixating the stimulus, just as he does if, after retreating, he regains courage and pursues the object.
However, having gone down a column, "retreating" upward no longer reduces the political visibility.
Following - the subject followed a retreating opponent with the nose maintained close to the opponent's anogenital region.
