What is another word for retreated?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪtɹˈiːtɪd] (IPA)

The word "retreated" is commonly used to describe the act of withdrawing or moving away from a particular place or situation. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning. Some possible alternatives include words like "recoiled," "withdrawn," "backed away," "fell back," "pulled out," "evacuated," "receded," "withdrew," and "retrograded." These various synonyms can be used in different contexts, depending on the tone or level of formality that is appropriate. For instance, "recoiled" might be used to convey a sense of fear or shock, while "evacuated" might be more appropriate in a military or emergency context.

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Usage examples for Retreated

When she saw him walking through the garden she retreated far back into the room, and there came into her face a look of fierce relief.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She retreated, step by step, until she backed against the door leading to her chamber, and there she stood gazing at him with her hand pressed over her lips to keep herself from crying out.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
She took a step or two toward the kitchen, then retreated; down the hall she went, up the stairs and into her own room, the door of which she shut and locked.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Retreated

  • Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
    Richard Leakey
  • The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
    Richard Leakey
  • Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
    Don Young
  • Most Australians did not love a sunburnt country. Farmers preferred a reliable rainfall; bank managers and city merchants preferred to deal with customers living in towns where the economy did not suffer from drought. The governors, who came from the British Isles, still retreated in summer to the cool hill towns - to Sutton Forest and Mount Macedon and the Mount Lofty Ranges and other colonial Simlas.
    Geoffrey Blainey
  • While it is much preferable to anarchy, government cannot abolish the evils of the human condition. At any time the state is only one of the forces that shape human behaviour, and its power is never absolute. At present, fundamentalist religion and organized crime, ethnic-national allegiances and market forces all have the ability to elude the control of government, sometimes to overthrow or capture it. States are at the mercy of events as much as any other human institution, and over the longer course of history all of them fail. As Spinoza recognized, there is no reason to think the cycle of order and anarchy will ever end. Secular thinkers find this view of human affairs dispiriting, and most have retreated to some version of the Christian view in which history is a narrative of redemption. The most common of these narratives are theories of progress, in which the growth of knowledge enables humanity to advance and improve its condition. Actually, humanity cannot advance or retreat, for humanity cannot act: there is no collective entity with intentions or purposes, only ephemeral struggling animals each with its own passions and illusions. The growth of scientific knowledge cannot alter this fact. Believers in progress – whether social democrats or neo-conservatives, Marxists, anarchists or technocratic Positivists – think of ethics and politics as being like science, with each step forward enabling further advances in future. Improvement in society is cumulative, they believe, so that the elimination of one evil can be followed by the removal of others in an open-ended process. But human affairs show no sign of being additive in this way: what is gained can always be lost, sometimes –as with the return of torture as an accepted technique in war and government – in the blink of an eye. Human knowledge tends to increase, but humans do not become any more civilized as a result. They remain prone to every kind of barbarism, and while the growth of knowledge allows them to improve their material conditions, it also increases the savagery of their conflicts.
    John Gray (philosopher)

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