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retrace

DEFINITIONS OF: retrace

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v to go back over again

“we retraced the route we took last summer”
Synonyms:
trace
Type of:
return
go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

v reassemble mentally

Synonyms:
construct, reconstruct
Types:
etymologise, etymologize
construct the history of words
Type of:
conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
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