Retreat

Definition

retreat /rÇ'tri:t/ v ၁။ (က) ဆုတ္ခြာသည္။ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္း ျပန္သည္။ the sound of his retreating footsteps ❍ force the enemy to retreat (behind their lines) ❍ crowds retreating before police fire hoses ❍ We retreated half a mile in order to get across the river. Compare ADVANCE 2 ၁, RETIRE ၂ (ခ) ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္၊ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္ကို ျပင္ဆင္ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ [ဥ] တပ္ေခါက္သည္။ The President retreated in the face of hostile public opinion. ❍ retreat from a demand. ၂။ ငုပ္လွ်ဳိးသြားသည္။ ဝင္ပုန္းသည္။ After the scandal, she retreated from the public eye. ❍ Embarrassed, she retreated to her bedroom. ❍ ( fig ) retreat into a world of fantasy. ၃။ စစ္သည္။ ဆုတ္သည္။ The flood water/ glacier slowly retreated. ၄။ ( esp finance ) တန္ဖိုးက်သြားသည္။ Share prices retreated 45p (to 523p). n ၁။ [U, C usu sing ] ဆုတ္ခြာျခင္း။ ခြာစစ္ဆင္ျခင္း။ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းျပန္လွည့္ျခင္း။ တပ္ေခါက္ျခင္း။ an orderly retreat from the camp ❍ The rebels are in retreat. ❍ The minister made an undignified/ embarrassing retreat from his earlier position. ၂။ the retreat [sing] အိပ္ခရာ (မႈတ္သည္)။ sound the retreat (eg on a drum or BUGLE). ၃။ [C] ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္ရာရိပ္သာ။ spend the weekends at a country retreat. ၄။ [U,C] သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဝါကပ္ဆိုေတာ္ မူၾကသကဲ့သို႔ ေအးခ်မ္းၿငိမ္ဆိမ္ရာ၌ ဘာဝနာစီးျဖန္းရေသာ ကာလ အပိုင္းအျခား။ go into/ be in retreat ❍ make an annual retreat.

Examples

1. The elephants retreated to the safety of the forest.
2. [into] : Clara
3. embarrassed
4. retreated into silence.
5. The Secretary appeared to retreat from his position when challenged by the press.
6. Wading birds collect small molluscs from the mud flats when the tide retreats.