retreating
Meaning of retreating
verb
- To treat or deal with (a topic) again or differently.
- To apply treatment to (an injury, a surface, etc.) again
- To withdraw from a position, go back.
- (of a glacier) To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures.
- To slope back.
a retreating forehead
noun
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
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Hyphenation of retreating
re-treat-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- retreating is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of retreating
Words that rhyme with retreating
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