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retreatings

retreatings is the plural of retreating.

Meaning of retreating

Noun

retreating (plural retreatings)

  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!1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book V (Terror the Order of the Day), page 319

Questions about retreatings

What is retreatings the plural of?
Retreatings is the plural of retreating.

Words near retreatings in the dictionary

  1. retreatest
  2. retreateth
  3. retreatful
  4. retreating
  5. retreatingness
  6. retreatings
  7. retreatism
  8. retreatist
  9. retreatists
  10. retreative
  11. retreatlike

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