0 to move back or away from an attack -- trekke seg tilbake
soldiers retreating from the battlefield soldater som gjør retrett fra slagmarken
1 to get out of an unpleasant situation -- trekke seg tilbake
He retreated into his room and stayed there. Han trakk seg tilbake til rommet sitt og ble der.
2 an act of moving back or away from an attack -- retrett [ masculine ]
3 a place where it is quieter and more private -- tilfluktssted [ masculine ]
a country retreat et tilfluktssted på landet
4 to move back or away from a battle (usually because the enemy is winning) -- trekke seg tilbake, gjøre retrett
5 to withdraw; to take oneself away -- trekke seg tilbake
Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity.
The literature also indicates that the glaciers generally retreated during the first half of the nineteenth century.
As silence retreats, the sonic entity in our external world enters in and becomes part of the constant exchange inside us.
Study courses and retreats were methods used to spread the word among a core of activists.
They believe that such terms can only stand for internal mechanisms; a behaviorist who uses them must therefore be retreating from behaviorism.
Whenever it seems that a summatory point is going to be made, the author persistently retreats into jargon, loading his sentences with unnecessarily complex terminology.
To her, the increasingly guilty pleasure she took in retreating into her own imaginary world and characters was a form of false worship.
After this loss of honour (for such was the decree's real significance), conservative nobles retreated into passivity or departed altogether.
