Synonyms for retrace
rɪˈtreɪsre·trace

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1. trace, retraceverb

   to go back over again

   "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"

   Synonyms:
   construct, decipher, line, describe, trace, hunt, reconstruct, hound, delineate, draw, follow

2. reconstruct, construct, retraceverb

   reassemble mentally

   "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"

   Synonyms:
   construct, restore, rebuild, trace, manufacture, make, redo, build, reconstruct, fabricate, remodel

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1. Virgil:

   Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.

2. Goldman Sachs:

   We ... forecast prices will retrace to their lows by October.

3. Hilary Graves:

   I would like to not have to retrace my family's footsteps back to Oklahoma and Arkansas.

4. André Breton:

   Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

5. Virgil:

   It is easy to go down into hell night and day, the gates of dark death stand wide, but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.