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plural counterretreats
(rare) A military retreat in response to another retreat. quotations
DESTROYED BRIDGE over a gully had been left intact through every previous retreat and counterretreat by both sides.
1942, LIFE, volume 13, number 25, page 99
[…] charges and countercharges, retreats and counterretreats, attackin' and fallin' back.
2017, Jim Fergus, The Vengeance of Mothers, page 278