retreating
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]retreating
- present participle and gerund of retreat
Noun
[edit]retreating (plural retreatings)
- The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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!