counterretreat
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]counterretreat (plural counterretreats)
- (rare) A military retreat in response to another retreat.
- 1942, LIFE, volume 13, number 25, page 99:
- DESTROYED BRIDGE over a gully had been left intact through every previous retreat and counterretreat by both sides.
- 2017, Jim Fergus, The Vengeance of Mothers, page 278:
- […] charges and countercharges, retreats and counterretreats, attackin' and fallin' back.