retreating

English

Verb

retreating

1. present participle of retreat

Noun

retreating (plural retreatings)

1. 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!