Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-TREAT', v.i.

1. To retire from any position or place.
2. To withdraw to a private abode or to any secluded situation. – Milton.
3. To retire to a place of safety or security; as, to retreat into a den or into a fort.
4. To move back to a place before occupied; to retire. The rapid currents drive, / Toward the retreating sea, their furious tide. – Milton.
5. To retire from an enemy or from any advanced position.