retreating
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of retreat#English|retreat
retreating (plural retreatings)
- The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
- But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
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