retracing
present participle ofretrace
retrace
verb[T]
uk/rɪˈtreɪs/us/rɪˈtreɪs/to go back over something, forexampleapathor aseriesof pastactions:
When herealizedhe hadlosthiskeys, he retraced in hismindhismovementsthatday.
Remembering, reminding and reminders
- aide-mémoire
- annal
- awakensomeonetosomething
- be engraved onsomeone'smemory/mindidiom
- be etched on/insomeone'smemoryidiom
- commit
- echo
- hold that thoughtidiom
- hooky
- if my memory serves me rightidiom
- imprint
- indelible
- jog
- remindsomeoneofsomething/someone
- reminder
- reminisce
- reminiscence
- reminiscent
- shade
- stamp
Idiom
retraceyoursteps
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This is a historic bookretracingthe history, the technology and the main concepts of electroacoustic music.
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Genetic clues to dispersal in human populations :retracingthe past from the present.
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Each field may be revisited byretracingthis process.
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Retracinghis radical career in local politics and how it touched national debates has allowed us to test the limits of our historical knowledge in three ways.
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This pathretracingmethod realizes high accuracy and fast speed of automatic returning when the mobile robot is working in static urban environment even if the environment is unknown.
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We begin byretracingthe historical origins of the organizational viewpoint in early debates within the field of biology between vitalists and reductionists, from which the construct of self-regulation emerged.
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Pathretracingperformed in this paper is based on sensors that exist onboard, which are cheap and widely available.
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I should like to think that at this late hour we wereretracingour steps to rather firmer ground.
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To some extent we areretracingour steps and reversing earlier amendments.
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Ever since that time we have been going back andretracingour steps.
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The task ofretracingour steps, he said, would in some ways be even harder.
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So much has been said on the economic aspects of the matter that there is little purpose inretracingthe ground.
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We areretracingour steps over unclaimed benefits.
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They pointed out that there would be far greater difficulty inretracingthis step than might well be presented if you have a variation of wages.
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The field also deals withretracingprocesses and procedures leading to accidents in operation of vehicles or machinery.
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