'Retreating' definitions:
Definition of 'Retreating'
From: GCIDE
- Retreat \Re*treat"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retreated; p. pr. & vb. n. Retreating.] To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field. [1913 Webster]
- The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furious tide. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'retreating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- boat-shaped,
- boatlike,
- bowl-shaped,
- bowllike,
- cavelike,
- cavernous,
- concave,
- concaved,
- craterlike,
- cup-shaped,
- cupped,
- cymbiform,
- declining,
- diminishing,
- dish-shaped,
- dished,
- dishing,
- dishlike,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- fading,
- funnel-breasted,
- funnel-chested,
- funnel-shaped,
- hollow,
- hollowed,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- incurvous,
- infundibular,
- infundibuliform,
- navicular,
- naviform,
- receding,
- retiring,
- saucer-shaped,
- scaphoid,
- scyphate,
- shrinking,
- sinking,
- spoonlike,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- waning