retrace

[ UK /ɹɪtɹˈe‍ɪs/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈtɹeɪs/ ]
VERB
  1. reassemble mentally
    reconstruct the events of 20 years ago
  2. to go back over again
    trace your path
    we retraced the route we took last summer
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How To Use retrace In A Sentence

  • Then Kirwill retraced his route a second time, without the lamp and without a magnifying glass, comparing the ninhydrin prints with his own card of the prints of James Kirwill. Gorky Park
  • I was roped to Jim, but it was of no use; my feet were paralyzed and slipped on the bare rock, and he said it was useless to try to go that way, and we retraced our steps.
  • The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
  • In just the last year, this has happened more than once, and we could go back further and retrace the gradual buildup to this moment. Alison Rose Levy: How To Survive In An Age Of Crisis
  • he retraced his steps
  • After a few minutes, he turned around and began to retrace his steps.
  • And the defense secretary retraced what he called the actual history of how the U.S. got involved in Iraq CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2005
  • Thankfully, after crew helped her retrace her footsteps, the ring turned up. The Sun
  • Her second journey retraced Salvatore Rosa's own trip from Rome to Ancona through the Umbrian landscape in the 1600s.
  • Hurry retrace room takes medical case.
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