Retreating vs Regressive - What's the difference?
retreating | regressive | Related terms |
The act of moving back from something; a retreat.
* 1837 , Thomas Carlyle, ?Henry Duff Traill, The French Revolution: A History (volume 3, page 229)
That tends to return, revert or regress.
(of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
As a verb retreating
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun retreating
is the act of moving back from something; a retreat.As an adjective regressive is
that tends to return, revert or regress.retreating
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(en noun)- 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!