Retrace is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETRACE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to go back over
• go back over (the same route that one has just taken)
• discover and follow (a route taken by someone else)
• trace (something) back to its source or beginning
• go back over (a route etc) again
• To trace back, as a line.
• To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one\'s steps; to retrace one\'s proceedings.
• To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.
• to go back over again
• reassemble mentally

Words related to RETRACE

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Words that contain RETRACE

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How to use RETRACE in a sentence

• He half decided to retrace his steps, but finally mounted the stair softly and stood within the doorway of the room.
• The rifles were converted into a bier, the body was placed upon it, and the four men then raised the burthen, and began to retrace their footsteps, in melancholy silence.
• After having been engaged in this way a full quarter of an hour, they suddenly turned round to retrace their steps.
• Unless he should retrace his steps the Territory of Utah will be in a state of open rebellion.
• He turned away his head as if sick, and was about to retrace his steps.
• I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common in which an author is at all in condition to retrace the steps by which his conclusions have been attained.
• I was willing to stray a little from my path, but never further than a single step, which I could retrace when I pleased.
• With a heavy heart he began to retrace his steps, sure of detection when he reached home, and of punishment.
• In March, 1806, they started eastward to retrace their steps.
• This he did not discover until it was too late to retrace his steps, his pursuers having already entered the street.
• If she has gone to England, we have passed each other, and I would desire to retrace my steps thither at once.
• Great Britain cannot retrace those steps even if she would, and so she will be forced to carry this process of reconstruction through.
• So convinced were the missionaries of the wisdom, yea, the necessity, of the course they had taken, that they were prepared to resign rather than retrace their steps.
• Staggering, he tried to retrace his steps, to reach the end of the room where the old woman, now again on a level with him, was watching him in silence.
• Lancy found it easier to retrace his steps than when he struggled alone through the blinding snow, and presently Mr.
• Vain and wretched is that which ye have imagined and still imagine! Retrace your steps, O My servants, and incline your hearts to Him Who is the Source of your creation.
• The consequence was, he had not a single step to retrace.
• Conscious of the error into which her own impatience had led her, she was at a loss how to retrace the false step that she had taken.
• They found two more spotted turtles before they turned again to retrace their steps.
• The outcome of it was that we decided to retrace our steps.
• I love to retrace them, for they reassure me that, in the course of that private ministerial occupation, God was pleased to give me so valuable a fruit of my labours.
• Medows, however, was obliged to retrace his steps by intelligence that Tippoo had again burst into the Carnatic, and was carrying fire and sword to the walls of Madras.
• The darkening shadows warned them not to go as far as usual, and at the end of a few hundred yards they turned to retrace their steps.
• This latter thought decided the boy, and caused him to hastily retrace his steps.
• How can I retrace the impression left upon me by that walk under the waters? Words are impotent to relate such wonders.
• At the first moment the unknown, seeing four armed men marching toward him, made a movement as if he would retrace his steps.
• And then Jimmie Dale stopped suddenly, and began to retrace his steps.
• Thus did they continue for four days more, every noon being not ten miles from the land but the next morning swept away to a distance, and having their ground to retrace.
• Jones and I rimmed a mile of our canyon and worked out almost to the west end of the Bay, without finding so much as a single track, so we started to retrace our way.
• It is sad to think I must finish my life with death, and if it were possible I would retrace my steps.
• We shall see the true state of affairs from the point of view of Constantinople if we retrace our steps a little.
• He believed that in trying to find God, he would get so lost that he would never be able to retrace his footsteps.
• As all the party go into the Park, we will follow them, and leaving them there, retrace our steps to the farm.

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