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Noun- A difficult and dangerous military retreat.

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  • K on Aug 2, 2008 when are they gonna make a new warriors movie?! (it was loosely based on anabasis)
  • After a few days 'anabasis, he crossed the Tombigbee in a province called Chicasa, in a few days encamping at a town of the same name.
  • The story of this anabasis has been told in hundreds and thousands of fragments -- the anabasis that has had no katabasis -- the literal going up of
  • French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty-second year.
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