RETREAT
- an act or process of withdrawing especially from what is difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable
- signal for retreating
- signal given by bugle at the beginning of a military flag-lowering ceremony
- military flag-lowering ceremony
- period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study, or instruction under a director
- to go back or backward [v RETREATED, RETREATING, RETREATS]
- place of privacy or safety refuge