reretreat

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ retreat.

Noun

reretreat (plural reretreats)

1. a second retreat.
   • 1913, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 145:

     However, the ice sheet did not pass away by continuous and steady recession but by oscillations, readvances and reretreats; and some of the readvances may have covered considerable territory and have seriously changed the drainage.

   • 1920, Science, page 285:

     The ice margin had many oscillations, readvances and reretreats, each probably covering many thousands of years.

   • 1968, Mohammed Akbar Khan, Sultan Salahuddin Yousaf Ayubi versus the crusaders:

     Nuruddin feigned reretreat.

Anagrams

• Ratterree, retreater