N. regress,
regression,
retrocession,
retrogression, retrograduation,
retroaction, reculade, retreat,
withdrawal,
retirement,
remigration,
recession,
recess, crab-like motion,
refluence,
reflux,
backwater,
regurgitation,
ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil) 277, flip-flop, volte- face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march,
veering,
tergiversation, recidivation|,
backsliding, fall,
deterioration, recidivism, recidivity,
reversal,
relapse, turning point
V. recede,
regrade, return,
revert, retreat, retire,
retrograde,
retrocede, back out, back down,
balk, crawfish*, crawl*, withdraw, rebound, go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back, lose ground, fall astern, drop astern,
backwater, put about, backtrack, take the back track, veer round, double, wheel,
countermarch,
ebb,
regurgitate,
jib,
shrink,
shy, turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon, retrace one's steps, dance the back step, sound a retreat, beat a retreat, go home
Adj. receding,
retrograde,
retrogressive,
regressive,
refluent,
reflex,
recidivous,
resilient, crab-like,
balky,
reactionary Adv. back, backwards,
reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours
Phr. revenons a nos moutons, as you were
V. recede, go, move back, move from, retire, withdraw,
shrink, back off, come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away, depart, retreat, move off, stand off, sheer off, fall back, stand aside, run away, remove,
shunt, distance
Phr. distance oneself from a person
V. resign, give up, throw up, lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's hands of,
abjure,
renounce,
forego, disclaim, retract, deny,
abrogate, desert, get rid of,
abdicate,
vacate, vacate one's seat, accept the stewardship of the chiltern hundreds, retire, tender one's resignation
Phr. "othello's occupation's gone"
N. seclusion,
privacy,
retirement,
reclusion,
recess,
snugness,
delitescence,
rustication, rus in urbe,
solitude,
solitariness,
isolation,
loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile,
aloofness, cell,
hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum,
depopulation,
desertion,
desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, old sarum,
exclusion,
excommunication,
banishment, exile,
ostracism,
proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut,
inhospitality,
inhospitableness,
dissociability,
domesticity, darby and joan,
recluse,
hermit,
eremite,
cenobite,
anchoret,
anchorite, simon stylites,
troglodyte, timon of athens,
santon,
solitaire,
ruralist, disciple of zimmermann, closet cynic,
diogenes, outcast,
pariah,
castaway,
pilgarlic,
wastrel,
foundling, wilding
V. be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil,
abandon, sport one's oak*, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon,
repel,
blackball,
excommunicate,
exclude, exile,
expatriate,
banish, outlaw,
maroon,
ostracize,
proscribe, cut off from, send to coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round,
depopulate, dispeople, unpeople
Adj. secluded,
sequestered, retired,
delitescent, private,
bye, out of the world, out of the way, "the world forgetting by the world forgot",
snug, domestic, stay-at-home,
unsociable, unsocial, dissocial,
inhospitable,
cynical, inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage,
troglodytic, solitary,
lonely,
lonesome, isolated, single,
estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless,
lorn,
forlorn,
desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited,
unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself,
derelict, outcast, banished
Phr. noli me tangere, "among them but not of them", "and homeless near a thousand homes i stood", far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, "makes a solitude and calls it peace", magna civitas magna solitudo, "never less alone than when alone", "o sacred solitude! divine retreat!"
