retreatedadj.
/rᵻˈtriːtᵻd/, U.S. /rəˈtridᵻd/, /riˈtridᵻd/ That has retreated or been caused to retreat (in various senses of retreat v.1).
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1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxvi. sig. Miv My retreted case (wherat thou didst erste grudge) Is: of matter present: a principall parte.
1665 R. Howard & J. Dryden Indian-queen i, in R. Howard Four New Plays 145 Rather to your retreated Troops appear, And let them see a Woman void of fear.
1706 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote Pt. 2 (ed. 2) IV. xxxv. 349 Deep in the Nether World, the driery Caves Where my retreated Soul in silent State, Forms Mystic Figures and Tremendous Spells.
a1720 J. Hughes Poems on Several Occasions (1735) I. 117 Within what hollow Rock, or winding Cell, By human Eyes unseen, Like some retreated Druid dost thou dwell?
1864 All Year Round 9 Apr. 206/2 I passed the retreated Kent Artillery Volunteers comfortably ensconced behind a masked battery.
1898 Nature 1 Sept. 431/1 The hillocks..have nowhere the regularity which old river beds would be possessed of. They are traces of a retreated sea.
1928 E. F. Benson Spook Stories 110 Here and there were pools left in the ground by the retreated tide.
1979 E. E. Frank Literary Archit. (1983) i. 28 Through a perfect matching of thought to language or language to thought, the retreated writer himself goes public.
2006 K. Watanabe in D. E. Panfilov Aesthetic Surg. Facial Mosaic xlvi. 333 A retreated hairline at the frontal and lateral sides help produce an impression that facial surface is wider.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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