The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countermarch \Coun`ter*march"\ (koun`t?r-m?rch"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Countermarched (-m?rcht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countermarching.] (Mil.) To march back, or to march in reversed order.
The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near
and receded.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
n. A countermarch. vb. (present participle of countermarch English)
Usage examples of "countermarching".
Shortly the combined AnkhMorpork regimental bands will put on a display of countermarching while playing a selection of military favourites.
He had a vision of “armies of Negroes marching and countermarching in the air, shining in armor.
He had a vision of "armies of Negroes marching and countermarching in the air, shining in armor.
Often, on lazy afternoons in the mountains, I have lain on the ground with my face under a sage-bush, and entertained myself with fancying that the gnats among its foliage were liliputian birds, and that the ants marching and countermarching about its base were liliputian flocks and herds, and myself some vast loafer from Brobdignag waiting to catch a little citizen and eat him.
They repeated themselves in a dozen different languages, word by word and letter by letter, wheeling and countermarching and forming fours in an infinite variety of restless patterns with all the aimless efficiency of a demonstration platoon of trained soldiersand with precisely as much intelligence.