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retreat
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away to escape |
| Synonyms: | abscond, avoid, beat a hasty retreat, blow*, bolt*, break, cut and run, cut out, decamp, depart, desert, elude, evade, fly, fly the coop, get away, get the hell out, get*, hotfoot, jump, leave, make a getaway, make off, make one's escape, make oneself scarce, make quick exit, make tracks, retreat, scamper, scoot, scram, skedaddle, skip*, split*, step on it, step on the gas, take a hike, take flight, take off, vamoose, vanish |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, stand, stay, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flinch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shy away, wince |
| Synonyms: | avoid, balk, blanch, blench, blink, cower, cringe, crouch, draw back, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, flee, quail, recede, recoil, retire, retreat, shirk, shrink, shun, start, swerve, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | confront, face, meet |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yield, collapse |
| Synonyms: | allow, bend, bow to, break, cave, cede, concede, contract, crumble, crumple, devote, fail, fall, flex, fold, fold up, give way, go, grant, hand over, lend, open, recede, relax, relent, relinquish, retire, retreat, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, surrender, weaken |
| Antonyms: | fight, hold up, withstand |
| Main Entry: | harbor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for seclusion |
| Synonyms: | asylum, cover, covert, harborage, haven, port, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, security, shelter |
| Notes: | harbor first meant 'shelter' and 'lodging' and that is how the word first entered English place-names, as a 'place of shelter; refuge' for a crowd of people; a port is a haven for vessels and it is equipped for loading and unloading ships, while a harbor is a haven for vessels but does not necessarily have onshore facilities |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for socializing |
| Synonyms: | abode, bar, clubhouse, cubbyhole, den, dwelling, gathering place, habitat, hangout, headquarters, home, lair, living quarters, locality, meeting place, niche, place, purlieu, range, rendezvous, resort, retreat, site, stomping ground, trysting place, watering hole |
| Main Entry: | haven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refuge, port |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, asylum, cover, covert, harbor, harborage, retreat, roadstead, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter |
| Main Entry: | hole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening in a solid object |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window |
| Notes: | a hole is an opening or cavity into or through something, while whole means complete, not divided |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid |
| Main Entry: | island |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land surrounded by body of water |
| Synonyms: | archipelago, atoll, bar, cay, enclave, haven, isle, islet, key, peninsula, reef, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, shelter |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration, solitude, withdrawal |
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