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Definition of Retreated
1. Noun. People who have retreated. "He had only contempt for the retreated"
Definition of Retreated
1. Verb. (past of retreat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retreated
1. retreat [v] - See also: retreat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retreated
Literary usage of Retreated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... as I thought, the mof t agreeable life that nature was capable of directing,
or that a man always bred to misfortunes was capable of being retreated to. ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... on tho heights retreated with all s|>ood, nnd the whole ... while their own
troop retreated, «a the rest of the Athenian force was uow coming against ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... plan contemplated, and while at first brilliantly successful, he was at last
defeated. Jackson, however, retreated on the llth across the Rapidan. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"court, which had gradually retreated from the confines of Thrace to the more
secure station of Sirmium. Five months after the death of Valens the emperor ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... he received the information that the Prussians defeated at Ligny had not
retreated to Namur and Liege, and he sent a message to Grouchy informing him of ..."
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