Crossword clues for retrace
retrace
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrace \Re*trace"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + trace: cf. F. retracer. Cf. Retract.]
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To trace back, as a line.
Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race.
--Driden. To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context television English) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display. vb. (context transitive English) To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
WordNet
v. to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" [syn: trace]
reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" [syn: reconstruct, construct]
Usage examples of "retrace".
On the same day General Buller, who had ceased to advance to the east and retraced his steps as far as Helvetia, began his northerly movement in the direction of Lydenburg, which is nearly fifty miles to the north of the railway line.
As we retraced our steps I glanced over my shoulder and saw him squatting on the mastaba, still as a glittering life-sized statue.
Annoyed, suspicious, perplexed, I stood on the porch watching my pantherine visitor retrace his path to the metal gate.
By use of the pedometers we had retraced our way to the prospector with ease and accuracy.
Heisenberg discovered the uncertainty principle, physics turned a sharp corner, never to retrace its steps.
They drank their best wine at dinner, and fell into reminiscing about old times about their many separations and reunions, retracing the years until they were back to the night when Pug proposed.
Individually at first, then in small groups, they began to retrace their paths, returning to their home vessels, where they automatically reberthed themselves, repressurized locks, and reestablished stipulated connections.
To the simple private, who does not know of diplomatic imbroglios and of political considerations, this sudden retreat means an almost as sudden retracing of steps, because he remembers that this manoeuvre preceded both the attacks on Solferino and on Custozza by the Austrians.
She could either take the stairs the Straken Lord had climbed or retrace her steps into the cells.
I retraced every step of our conversation from the moment when I had found him crouching beside me, heedless of my thirst, and pointing to the fire and smoke that streamed up from the ruins of Weybridge.
Then he turned to retrace his steps, and found the blank wall blanker and more deserted than ever, while the foreground was void of all trace of Olivia.
The just indignation of an outraged and deeply injured people will teach the Illinois Ape to repeat his race and retrace his journey across the borders of the Free Negro States still more rapidly than he came.
Gilly dropped coins into the middle jar and retraced their steps to their ledges.
The exploration of these dense masses of wood was difficult in the extreme, and the reporter never ventured there without the pocket-compass, for the sun scarcely pierced through the thick foliage and it would have been very difficult for them to retrace their way.
It would be wise to consider it again before starting around the cable on a trip she would have to retrace if Ophion were north of the cable.