retrace

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To go back over a route or path you have already taken.

   He retraced his steps and found his keys where he had dropped them.

2. 2
   verb

   To think back carefully over past events in order to remember or understand them.

   Detectives retraced the victim's last movements before the crime.

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

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