countermarch

English Thesaurus

1. (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route (noun.act)

hypernym	:	march, marching,
definition	:	the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind) (noun.act)

domain category	:	armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine,
definition	:	the military forces of a nation (noun.group)

2. change the order of soldiers during a march (verb.cognition)

hypernym	:	reorder,
definition	:	assign a new order to (verb.cognition)

3. march back along the same way (verb.motion)

hypernym	:	march, process,
definition	:	march in a procession (verb.motion)