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Retreaded vs Retreated - What's the difference?

retreaded | retreated |

As verbs the difference between retreaded and retreated

is that retreaded is (retread) while retreated is (retreat).

retreaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (retread)

    • retread

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (re-) + (noun)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
  • (military, slang) a person who re-entered military service in World War Two after serving in World War One.
  • * 1950 , Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine :
    • In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.
  • * 1971 , Brian Garfield, The thousand-mile war: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians :
    • They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.
  • * 1976 , James Jones, Art Weithas, WW II: a chronicle of soldiering :
    • We retreads upset everybody.
  • * 2006 , Keith E Bonn, When the Odds Were Even :
    • As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...

    Etymology 2

    From (re-) + (tread) (verb)

    Alternative forms

    * re-tread

    Verb

  • to tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
  • * 1818 , Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    • As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sometimes, figurative) A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
  • * 1998 , Frank Rich, Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York times, 1980-1993
    • But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms

    retreated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (retreat)

    • retreat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In a retreat he outruns any lackey.
  • The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
  • A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
  • * L'Estrange
    • He built his son a house of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat .
  • * Dryden
    • That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.
  • A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
  • A period of meditation, prayer or study.
  • Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
  • A signal for a military withdrawal.
  • A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
  • A military ceremony to lower the flag.
  • (chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.

    • See also

    * religious retreat

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To withdraw military forces.

    • Anagrams

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