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katabasis

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ka⋅tab⋅a⋅sis

  [kuh-tab-uh-sis]
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–noun, plural -ses  [-seez] .
1. a march from the interior of a country to the coast, as that of the 10,000 Greeks after their defeat and the death of Cyrus the Younger at Cunaxa.
2. a retreat, esp. a military retreat.
Compare anabasis.

Origin:
1830–40; < Gk katábasis a going down, descent, equiv. to kataba- (s. of katabaínein to go down) + -sis -sis. See kata-, basis
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