verb
- to go back over the same path or route
- to go through something again step by step, especially to find where a mistake was made
Examples
- She retraces her steps to find her lost keys.
- The detective retraces the suspect’s movements on the night of the crime.
- He retraces his route home when he realizes he took a wrong turn.
- The scientist retraces her calculations to locate the error.
- We need to retrace our path back to the main trail.
- The historian retraces the events leading up to the war.