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Retreatful :: Retreatful (a.) Furnishing or serving as a retreat.

Recess :: Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..

Recess :: Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion..

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.

Recourse :: Recourse (n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence..

Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc..

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat..

Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company..

Retreated :: Retreated (imp. & p. p.) of Retrea.

Latibulize :: Latibulize (v. i.) To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid..

Retreatment :: Retreatment (n.) The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira..

Retirement :: Retirement (n.) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable..

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Asylum :: Asylum (n.) Any place of retreat and security.

Retreating :: Retreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrea.

Secess :: Secess (n.) Retirement; retreat; secession.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..

Bower :: Bower (n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat..

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