retrocede

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 Thomas Hardy

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 M. (François) Guizot

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 T. C. Smith

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 John Sherman

In these circumstances the Italian Government offered, at a convenient opportunity, to retrocede Kassala to Egypt.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

The political face of the D.C. quilt depicts the city’s diamond shape, minus the chunk that was retroceded to Virginia, and two sets of stars, echoing both the U.S. and D.C. flags.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

What is now mostly Alexandria, Va. was retroceded to the commonwealth and ultimately accepted in 1847.

From Fox News ● Jun. 29, 2020

Unless they are part of retroceded Virginia, wherein homeowners own the land.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2018

“In the 1800s, when Virginia retroceded the land back from the Federal City, the Boundary Stones on the Virginia side” became the property of the landowner, Anderson said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2018

She continued in possession of Louisiana until the year 1800, when, during some European negotiations, Bonaparte concluded a treaty at San Ildefonso with Charles IV., by which the entire territory was retroceded to France.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

They have long hands and feet, legs thin, and the os coxigis retroceding.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

He says they have sacrificed all who assisted us, and that the difficulty in retroceding the Tenasserim provinces would be to know what to do with the 35,000 people who have sought our protection.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough

The work of regeneration appears to be arrested or retroceding.

From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe