Retrace

Definitions: Retrace

Retrace

Verb

1. To go back over again, as of a route or steps; "we retraced the route we took last summer".

2. Of past events.

Date "retrace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Retrace \Re*trace"\, transitive verb. [Prefix re- trace: compare to the French expression retracer. Compare to Retract.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	See trace, note. (references)
Post & Telecom	In television, the return of the electron beam from the end of a line or field to the commencement of the next. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Retrace

Synonyms: construct (v), reconstruct (v), trace (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Memory	Recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past.
Regression	Turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home.
Tergiversation	Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Retrace

English words defined with "retrace": backtrack ♦ double back ♦ Remeasure ♦ To take the back track, To turn back, turn back ♦ Untread. (references)

Specialty definitions using "retrace": MEASUREMENT MODE DUTY CYCLE. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	To face your fears, retrace the years (Silent Lucidity; performing artist: Queensryche)
Movie/TV Titles	Retrace (2001)
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Domain	Title
Books	Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust (reference) (more book examples)

Music	U.S. Retrace (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He said to himself that he had done all that he could, and that now he had only to retrace his steps, tranquilly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Retrace" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 70.21% of the time. "Retrace" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	70.21%	66	41,290
Lexical Verb (base form)	28.72%	27	66,962
Noun (singular)	1.06%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	94	N/A

Expressions using "retrace": retrace one's path ♦ retrace one's steps. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "retrace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ripërshkoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏حكى (narrate, recount, relate, tale, tell), ‏عاد من حيث أتى, ‏عاد على عقبيه, ‏عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), ‏إنقلب على عقبيه, ‏إستعاد أحداثا ماضية, ‏أعاد الرسم, ‏روى (irrigate, narrate, quench, recite, recount, relate, report, retail, saturate, slake, sluice, story, tell, water), ‏رجع القهقري. (various references)

Bulgarian		възстановявам в паметта си (reconstruct), връщам се по, преповтарям си. (various references)

Czech		zrekapitulovat, znovu si vybavit, vrátit se (come back, get back, go back, redound, return, turn back), stopovat (hitch, hitchhike, hitch-hike, stalk, trace, trail), sledovat (follow, follow up, observe, pursue, shadow, tail, teleview, trace, track, trail, watch). (various references)

Danish		tilbageløb (flyback, reflux). (various references)

Dutch		terugslag (arc back, arc-back, atavism, backfire, back-fire, bounce, choc en retour, flashback, flyback, kickback, rebound, rebound effect, relapse, throw back). (various references)

Farsi		ردپای چیزی رادوباره گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish		paluu (return). (various references)

French		retracer (recount, relate), retour du spot, reconstituer (reconstitute, reconstruct, retrospect). (various references)

German		zurückverfolgen (backtrack, to retrace, trace back). (various references)

Greek		κίνηση επιστροφής (flyback), ανιχνεύω πάλι, αναπολώ (conjure up, contemplate, look back, look back on, recapture, recollect, reminisce). (various references)

Hebrew		לחזור על עקבותיו (backtrack). (various references)

Hungarian		rekonstruál (reconstruct, to re-enact), visszamegy (get back, go back, to go back, to remount, to retrace). (various references)

Italian		ritorno (recurrence, return, return match, reversal, reversion), ritornare (become again, come back, give back, go, go back, recur, report back, retrograde, return, revert, switch back, turn round), ripercorrere (go over again, run through again), rintracciare (search out, trace). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遡源 (go back to the beginning, return to the origin), 溯源 (go back to the beginning, return to the origin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さくげん (curtailment, cut, go back to the beginning, reduction, return to the origin). (various references)

Manx		filley er ash (double back, double over, roll up, throwback, throwback of breed, turn over, turn over as sleeve, turn up), feddyn reesht, aachroo (recreate, reform, restoration). (various references)

Pig Latin		etraceray

Portuguese		rever (reconsider, redact, review, revise, see again), retraçar, retorno do ponto (flyback), remontar à origem de, reevocar, recordar (hark back, recall, recollect, remember, remind, repeat). (various references)

Romanian		reconstitui (reconstitute, reform, restore), se întoarce (be back, cant, come again, come back, front, go back, re-enter, return, round, swing, turn). (various references)

Russian		восстанавливать в памяти. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vratiti se istim putem (backtrack), ponovo precrtati. (various references)

Spanish		retractar (recant), retorno del punto (flyback), recordar (bear in mind, bethink, bring back, eventide, hark back to, look back on, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retrospect, take back, think, to remember), volver a trazar, ir recordando. (various references)

Swedish		spåra (be located, locate, spoor, trace, track). (various references)

Turkish		kaynağına inmek, kaynağına gitmek, kökenine inmek (retrace one's steps), izini takip etmek, geri akma, üzerinden geçmek (bestride, fly over, pass over). (various references)

Ukranian		відновлювати в пам'яті, повертатися (backtrack, bear, come again, drive back, fall back upon, return, revert, turn). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "retrace": retraced, retraces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Retrace" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Petrarca, Petrascu, Rastricke, ratface, Rauraje, raytrace, restance, restrike, reterrage, retrack, retrade, retrave, retree, retrence, retrocon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "retrace" (pronounced rētrā"s)
4	-t r ā" s	trace.
3	-r ā" s	brace, disgrace, embrace, erase, grace, race.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: caterer, recrate, terrace.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: career, carter, cerate, crater, create, ecarte, retear, tearer, terrae, tracer.
	-2 letters: arete, carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, eater, erect, racer, rater, react, recta, tarre, terce, terra, trace.
	-3 letters: acre, care, carr, cart, cate, cere, cete, race, rare, rate, rear, rete, tace, tare, tear, tree.
	-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cee.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: caterers, cratered, creature, recanter, recarpet, recrated, recrates, recreant, recreate, retraced, retraces, terraced, terraces.
	+2 letters: aftercare, careerist, caretaker, carpenter, centraler, cerebrate, certainer, chartered, charterer, chatterer, clatterer, correlate, craterlet, creatures, execrator, mercurate, overreact, procreate, racketeer, racketier, recanters, recapture, recarpets, recharted, recharter, recreants, recreated, recreates, rectorate, refracted, retracked, retracted, scatterer, secretary, streetcar, traceried, traceries, treachery.
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