Definition of "retrocede" []

• To go back; recede. (verb-intransitive)
• To cede or give back (a territory, for example); return. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I support a plan that would take the residential areas and retrocede them back into potentially the state of Maryland."
• "However, the right thing to do would be to retrocede the non-enclave territory to Maryland."
• "Later, Congress agreed to retrocede the portion of the District south of the Potomac to Virginia, but the man-made southeast, northeast and northwest borders with Maryland remained."