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Retreating

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of moving back from something; a retreat.

    "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!"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of retreat form-of, gerund, participle, present

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