BEAT A RETREAT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

beat a retreat

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Definition of beat a retreat

as in retreat

to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening Seeing that they were hopelessly outnumbered, the troops beat a retreat.

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beat it

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Holding has to beat it by a premium for the risk, which the paper computes near 9% a year for a typical owner.

— Ron Smith, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
The Ultra said to beat it hollow on benchmarks for AI tasks, including image and video generation.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026

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beat a retreat

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