📚 Retreat, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈtriːt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): (of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat. ❗️ Examples: 1. The French retreated in disarray. 2. I just received word that the enemy forces are retreating. 3. The First Shock Army was retreating along a narrow corridor between two series of hills. 4. When daylight arrived, scouting parties would work their way up over the hill in order to determine exactly how far the Army had retreated. 5. The French army retreated towards the River Marne and it was here that both German and French armies fought out the first major battle on the Western Front. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic