verb
- to retrace one’s steps; to go back over a path previously taken
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The lost hiker decided to untread his path back to the main trail.
- She wished she could untread the steps that led to their argument.
- The explorer began to untread his route through the dense forest.
- Unable to find the exit, they had to untread their way back to the entrance.
- The poet wrote of wanting to untread the roads of his youth.