Associations to the word «Retrace»
Wiktionary
RETRACE, verb. (transitive) To trace again; to go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.
RETRACE, noun. (television) 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.
Dictionary definition
RETRACE, verb. To go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path".
RETRACE, verb. Reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.