Sentence:  Under the Obama doctrine, the United States accommodates and <WSD>retrenches</WSD> internationally in large part so the president can focus on leaving behind liberal domestic policy legacies. This entails targeted counterterrorist strikes and assertive foreign policy adjustments when necessary, but for the most part represents a shift from guns to butter, a downscaling of military weight and presence, and an avoidance of any heavy US footprint overseas—a strategy pursued both on its merits in w:Barack Obama 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To abridge; to curtail.