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# retrace

«retrace» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go back along the same way you came** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (retrace, retraces, retraced, retracing)

### meaning for a pupil

To retrace your steps is to go back along the same way you came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retrace/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories characters go back the way they came, often to find something or return home

### examples

- We must retrace our steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retrace/#x1)
- The Peddler retraced his steps to the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retrace/#x2)
- They retraced their steps to the hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retrace/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «retrace» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retrace/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.