0 When soldiers retreat, they move away from the enemy, especially to avoid fighting. -- отступать
1 to go away to a place or situation that is safer or quieter -- удаляться, уходить
2 a move away, especially to a place or situation that is safer or quieter -- отступление, отход
3 a move back by soldiers or an army, especially to avoid fighting -- отступление
a strategic retreat
4 a quiet place where you can go to rest or be alone -- уединенное место, убежище
a mountain retreat
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.
