verb [VN]
1 to go back along exactly the same path or route that you have come along:
She turned around and began to retrace her steps towards the house.
2 to make the same trip that sb else has made in the past:
They are hoping to retrace the epic voyage of Christopher Columbus. * (figurative) Her mind retraced (= remembered) the dramatic events of the previous night.
3 to find out what sb has done or where they have been:
Detectives are trying to retrace her movements on the night she disappeared.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for retrace is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does retrace appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — retrace appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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