to retrace
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4.4
- verb
- /rɪˈtreɪs/
:
reconstruir
- After losing his keys, he had to retrace his steps to find where he might have left them.
- retrace the steps
- retrace the history
So this does, towards the end, come to sound like Hegel's not not being a conscient, but at least retracing some of the steps that Kant would trace.
- So this does, towards the end, come to sound like Hegel's not not being a conscient, but at least retracing some of the steps that Kant would trace.
- You had mentioned want to retrace a couple things here.
Examples
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Step by step, over and over, she retraced events.
Fiction book (1990) -
Retrace your steps, escape your past.
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What he meant to do was retrace this just the way it had happened, getting it straight in his mind.
Fiction book (1991) -
Let's just retrace the steps.
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We retrace Harry's steps.
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I retrace the years of my marriage but can't recall where we misplaced tenderness.
Fiction book (1990) -
Mom, I'm retracing the steps of how you might have snuck out of your room and stolen Nana's cookies.
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In Guernica itself, meanwhile, there is a Gernika Museoa which retraces the history of the town from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Academic text (1999) -
With a backward glance, she mentally retraces her path from stairs to sea, in review of her solitary journey.
Fiction book (1995) -
Soon the air filled with women's prattle and cackles of glee as they hurriedly retraced their steps.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To think about something from the past
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2.4
Remember something from the past
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2.6
Think about the past, especially a time you remember
107
3.7
Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind
92
1.9
Remember things that happened in the past
52
4.8
Make a picture in your mind from available information
44
4.1
To bring a memory or fact back into your mind
34
5.5
To imagine a scene clearly in your mind
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6.0
To bring back a past feeling or quality
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3.7
To remember something from the past
20
2.3
To think about past events to remember or judge them
2
6.3
Think about something that happened in the past to remember it
Picture a past scene again in your mind
To feel a past event or emotion again
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Etymology
Retrace comes from the parts re- 'again' and trace 'a mark or path', which you can imagine as a line you can follow in your memory. So, to retrace an event is to follow those mental marks and think back over the steps that happened.