Countermarch

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  • noun. A march back or in a reverse direction.
  • noun. A complete reversal of method or conduct.
  • intransitive & transitive verb. To execute or cause to execute a countermarch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A marching back; a returning.
  • noun. Milit., a change of the wings or face of a body of men, so as to bring the right to the left or the front to the rear, and retain the same men in the front rank: or a rear rank may become a front rank by countermarching round the end of the latter, which remains stationary.
  • noun. Figuratively, a complete change or reversal of measures or conduct.
  • To march back.
  • Milit., to execute a countermarch. See countermarch, n., 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To march back, or to march in reversed order.
  • noun. A marching back; retrocession.
  • noun. An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.
  • noun. A change of measures; alteration of conduct.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A march back along the same route
  • verb. To march back along the same route
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. change the order of soldiers during a march
  • verb. march back along the same way
  • noun. (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route
  • Word Usage
    "The regime's Basij security force were charged with maintaining order and they tried to undermine the protesters For weeks, march and countermarch by the government and opposition supporters galvanized and polarized Iran with the internet acting as a conduit for each to mobilize and make a case for itself."
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