"retreating" meaning in English

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          "text": "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!",
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        "The act of moving back from something; a retreat."
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