retrace

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier

• Rhymes: -eɪs

retrace (third-person singular simple present retraces, present participle retracing, simple past and past participle retraced)

1. (transitive) To trace (a line, etc. in drawing) again.
2. (transitive) To go back over something, usually in an attempt of rediscovery.

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

retrace (plural retraces)

1. (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.

• Terrace, caterer, reacter, recrate, terrace

retrace

1. first-person singular present indicative of retracer
2. third-person singular present indicative of retracer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of retracer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of retracer
5. second-person singular imperative of retracer