Entry and Retreat

Entry

Entry noun - The entrance room of a building.

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Retreat and entry are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Retreat" instead a noun "Entry".

Nearby Words: enter, entrance, entree

Retreat noun - An act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable.

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Entry and retreat are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Entry" instead a noun "Retreat".

Nearby Words: retreated, retreating

good	good entry	good retreat
full	full entry	full retreat
long	long entry	long retreat
single	single entry	single retreat
Other adjectives: successful, bad, final, subsequent, last, attempted.

A particularly good one crops up in Die Hard when John McClane desperately tries to persuade Hans Gruber to call off his mooks from machine-gunning the SWAT Team instead of letting them retreat after a failed attempt to force entry.

Source: Verb This!
Worth It: Played straight in Honey's Money (see its own entry); subverted in Hare Trimmed (when he beats a hasty retreat at the altar).

Source: Western Animation / Yosemite Sam

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