Beat A Retreat

Definition: Beat A Retreat

Beat A Retreat

Verb

1. Depart hastily.

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Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Regression

Turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home.

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Arabic 

‏هزمه وهو متراجعا. (various references)

French

battre en retraite. (various references)

Hungarian

takarodót fúj (to beat a retreat, to sound the tattoo), megfutamodik (fled, flee, to beat a retreat, to cop out, to flee, to run for). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatbay aay etreatray

Portuguese

bater em retirada (retire, retreat). (various references)

Romanian

bate în retragere (blench, retire, retreat). (various references)

Spanish

batirse en retirada (retreat). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), geri çekilmek (blench, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retract, retreat, set back, shrink back, stand back, step back, withdraw). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: barrette, berretta, betatter, tartrate, trabeate.

-5 letters: abetter, beretta, ratatat, rebater, retreat, tabaret, treater.