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Retreating vs Detreating - What's the difference?

retreating | detreating |

As verbs the difference between retreating and detreating

is that retreating is present participle of lang=en while detreating is present participle of detreat.

As a noun retreating

is the act of moving back from something; a retreat.

retreating

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
  • * 1837 , Thomas Carlyle, ?Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
    • 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!

    detreating

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