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Retrace one's steps
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backtrack
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Wikipedia
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Backtrack may refer to: Back Track , a 1998 first-person shooter for the Game Boy Advance BackTrack , a Linux distribution BackTrack (magazine) , a British railway history monthly magazine Backtrack (Transformers) , a fictional character in the Transformers ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back" [syn: turn back , double back ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the act of backtrack#Verb vb. 1 to retrace one's steps 2 to repeat or review work already done 3 (context aviation English) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Don't worry about backtracking on a bad decision. ▪ If union leaders start to backtrack now, they'll lose their supporters. ▪ The President seems to be backtracking on some of his election promises. ▪ There is increased ...
Usage examples of backtrack.
Under cover of running a search on EsKay digs, he pulled up the information on the personnel, backtracking to the last EsKay dig the Cades had been on.
It is very difficult to backtrack a chain of gates, if it was constructed with proper random deliberation, even for the time-mobile.
Vadim, under the command of Captain Ashiant, as he and the ships backtrack the fleeing Hiver spheres.
By the time the IPF could backtrack and cross the river, coming up to the point of ambush, the Rebels were long gone, fading silently and quickly into the countryside, their gruesome jobs efficiently and effectively done.
Von Zarovich backtracked their path and discovered the hoofprints of their horses appearing in the middle of an otherwise empty and unmatched patch of earth, as though they had appeared out of nowhere.
He backtracked his train of thought, but the word had suddenly lost all semantic reference and become only two meaningless syllables, odd-sounding and flat.
As the backtracking train squealed to a stop dozens of doors opened and crowds of people jumped out to see what had happened.
If Sanner was backtracking, that meant he intended to confer with the rest of the rescue team and perhaps make them retrace their steps.
Even so, the thought of backtracking gnawed at him as they approached the entrance to the final chamber.
Maybe it was all the practice tracking and backtracking through the cave system.
He backtracked as far as the enclave of mismatched trailers, which had the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F on small painted signs in front.
Brennen slipped her the luma and backtracked warily up into blackness.
As she was turning right at the stop sign to backtrack around the island of pinons separating the houses from the maintenance yard, the short exchange between the sisters sprang back into her thoughts with sudden clarity.
Stanton had to engage in furious backtracking, growing connective tissue to the pro-slavery radicals through that foppish Massachusetts Senator, Sumner.
Kirk, backtracking, ducked behind a large machine and pulled out his phaser.