retrocede

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It must have felt that fervid call    Although it took no heed, Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall,    And saps all retrocede.

From Poems of the Past and the Present by Hardy, Thomas

I felt begin The Judgment-Day: to retrocede Was too late now.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, proposed to retrocede to the seceding states, the property of the United States.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

By a treaty of October 1, 1800, he compelled Spain to retrocede the former French province in return for a promise to establish a kingdom of "Etruria" for a Spanish prince.

From The Wars Between England and America by Smith, T. C.

Napoleon had conceded Hanover to Prussia as the price of peace; he was ready to retrocede it to England, free to indemnify Prussia at the expense of Germany.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by Guizot, M. (François)