Retreating synonyms | phrases

Phrases with similar meaning for Retreating

• give ground

  go away
• getaway car
• beat a retreat
• beat a hasty retreat
• do a U-turn
• concede defeat
• pull a U-ey
• do a one-eighty
• turn tail

  go away
• keep aloof

  go away
• seclude oneself

  go away
• drawing back
• directed backwards
• on the run
• on last leg
• giving up the ghost
• one foot in grave
• losing momentum
• shriveling up
• at end of rope
• in extremis
• self-effacing
• outward-bound
• ex-
• not forward
• in retreat
• falling back
• in flight
• going out
• flowing back
• gently sloping

  slanting