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1. People who have retreated
   "he had only contempt for the retreated"

1. Pull back or move away or backward
   "The enemy retreated"
   - withdraw, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back
    
2. Move away, as for privacy
   "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer"
    
3. Move back
   "The glacier retreats"
   - retrograde
    
4. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
   - pull back, back out, back away, crawfish [N. Amer], crawfish out [N. Amer], pull in one's horns, withdraw, crayfish [US]

Type of: go, locomote, move, people, travel

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