Retreating is valid Scrabble Word

Is retreating a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is retreating valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for RETREATING in dictionary:

VERB:

RETREAT, to go back
(of an army) withdraw from enemy forces as a result of their superior power or after a defeat
move back or withdraw
withdraw to a quiet or secluded place
(of shares) decline in value
move (a piece) back from a forward or threatened position on the board.
change one's mind or plans as a result of criticism or difficulty

NOUN:

an act of moving back or withdrawing
a signal for a military force to withdraw
a military musical ceremony carried out at sunset, originating in the playing of drums and bugles to tell soldiers to return to camp for the night.

a quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax
a period or place of seclusion for the purposes of prayer and meditation
a decline in the value of shares
an act of changing one's mind or plans as a result of criticism or difficulty

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to go back or backward

Words related to RETREATING

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How to use RETREATING in a sentence

The Germans were coming on with great rapidity, and if there is one dangerous job, it is to pick up the wounded of a retreating army.
I stood up and fired both barrels at the retreating flock.
The master of Palomar gazed after the retreating figure of his guest.
So threatening was the state of affairs that Edward thought of retreating to Edinburgh.
He had expected victory to be costly, and on he pressed with diminished numbers toward Moscow, armies retreating and villages burning before him.
The new-comer also became deathly white as he glanced after the retreating youth.
He had been at Glencoe only a short time when the news reached him that the burghers in the Free State had lost their courage, and were retreating rapidly towards Bloemfontein.
Towards night, the enemy, still retreating, fell into disorder.
Having received intelligence of this, Lord Cornwallis, instead of retreating or waiting to receive Gates, set out in the dead of the night to meet him.
When the retreating raiders reached United States territory they found detachments of American troops stationed upon all the roads leading to St.

I saw several of the enemy jumping a fence, as if they were intending to pursue the retreating column.
It was well I did, for without signal or warning the group wavered a moment, as though retreating, and the next instant precipitated itself upon me.
I heard him deny all knowledge of me, and presently the sound of retreating hoofs and the echo of voices dying in the distance assured me I was left.
He was on the point of retreating, when a man came out of the house, and approached him.
After again retreating, he formed on the hill above where Sugar Creek Church now stands.
Soon after they commenced retreating the Indians again fired upon them and unfortunately one of the party, Richards, was dangerously wounded.
Slowly he followed the retreating form of the doctor and Margaret, his hands clenched.
He was never more to be feared than when he was retreating, and where others thought only of strong defensive positions he looked persistently for the opportunity to attack.
We learn in the retreating How vast an one Was recently among us.
Faster and faster they went, advancing, retreating, bending clumsily, then wavering, toppling, reeling, like giants well drunk.
One night, when retreating with a weak force, he had the Waikatos at his heels.
The losses were small, proving that the resistance of the enemy was by no means desperate, and as the retreating force was not pursued the defeat was not crushing.
It is claimed that if the Greeks had pushed forward instead of retreating, the Turks must have been beaten.
Seventy-two pieces of cannon fell into the hands of the victors, and at every point the Russians were retreating.
She had been tracing the retreating line of sunlight on the hillside opposite.
His retreating figure was already mounting the grey upland field.

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