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countermarching

countermarching is the present participle and gerund of countermarch.

Meaning of countermarch

Verb

countermarch (third-person singular simple present countermarches, present participle countermarching, simple past and past participle countermarched)

  1. To march back along the same route

See all 2 meanings of countermarch

Noun

countermarching (plural countermarchings)

  1. A countermarch.
    • […] every private man was fit to command, and their wheelings, marchings, countermarchings, and exercise, were done with such order and readiness, that the distinct words of command were hardly of any use among them […]1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

Forms of countermarching

pluralcountermarchings

Questions about countermarching

What does countermarching mean?
Countermarching means a countermarch.
What is countermarching the present participle and gerund of?
Countermarching is the present participle and gerund of countermarch.
What part of speech is countermarching?
Countermarching is a noun.
What is the plural of countermarching?
The plural of countermarching is countermarchings.

Words near countermarching in the dictionary

  1. Countermans
  2. countermapping
  3. countermarch
  4. countermarched
  5. countermarches
  6. countermarching
  7. countermarchings
  8. countermark
  9. countermarked
  10. countermarking
  11. countermarks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countermarching (page history and authors); countermarch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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