v
(transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
v
(transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
v
(obsolete) To yoke an animal to something
v
(obsolete) To prevent, to avert.
v
to fight against and cause to recede
n
(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
v
To withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action.
v
(military) To provide information to a military force in order to prevent escalation of a conflict
v
(transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
v
(transitive) To cease to prescribe (a medicine).
v
(transitive) To direct or send on a detour.
v
(transitive) To reverse the treatment of.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To draw back, pull back.
v
To remind people of something, usually unpleasant, from the past.
v
to retreat from a position
v
(engineering) To educe, to extract.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To move; to rouse or excite.
v
(idiomatic, business) To recover from financial straits.
v
to fail to keep; to renege on.
v
(idiomatic) To change one's opinion, or be uneasy about a previous decision.
n
a pause to regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next fight
n
A retreat, especially a military one.
v
To solve a problem in a way that creates another problem, often of equal nature and severity.
v
(transitive, programming) To omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.
v
(military) To deploy more weaponry than an opponent or enemy
v
Obsolete form of overhaul. [To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.]
v
(intransitive, with from) To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
n
Synonym of broadcast delay
v
(obsolete, transitive) To repel; to drive off or away.
n
The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
v
To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
n
The act of repelling an enemy, etc.
v
(archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
n
(military) The ability to exploit resources and capabilities located elsewhere.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
v
(transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
v
To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
n
(archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
adv
So as to recoil or shrink back.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To retreat.
v
(obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back.
v
(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
v
(transitive) To stop, to cause to come to a halt.
v
(obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
n
A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
v
(intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
v
(phonetics) To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
v
(obsolete) To retract; to recant.
n
Obsolete form of retreat. [The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.]
n
Obsolete form of retreat. [The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.]
n
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
n
A survivalist who plans to withdraw to a remote region in the event of a catastrophe.
adj
Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
n
A policy or advocacy of retreat.
v
(intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
n
(specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
v
(intransitive) To go back.
v
(military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
v
(obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
v
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
n
A withdrawal of military forces.
v
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To reconcile; become reconciled.
v
To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose.
v
(transitive, intransitive) Retract (an envelope of skin or flesh, or an analogous protective sheath).
v
(idiomatic) Alternative form of start with a clean sheet [(idiomatic) To go back to square one; start all over again.]
v
To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
v
(military) To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
v
(transitive) To retract; to recant.
v
To be forced to retract a prior statement after it has been shown to be disproven; to take back what one has said.
v
To retract/withdraw an earlier statement
n
(economics, usually negative) The changing of import sources as a result of political agreeements, rather than to increase mutual benefit.
v
(transitive, rare) To rescind or revoke (an award).
v
To retract a prior concession.
v
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To retract a confession.
v
(intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
v
To withdraw a resignation.
v
(of a cat's claws) to retract.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
n
(law, obsolete) Retraxit: a dismissal with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit.
n
An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
n
An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
n
The act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.
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