Meaning & use
Retraced
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Traveled back over a path or course again, or reconstructed the history of something step by step.
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They retraced their steps to find the lost keys.
Historians retraced the explorer's route using old ship logs.
A note on using this word
"Retrace one's steps" is a common idiom for both literally and figuratively going back over a path already taken.
Words with a similar meaning
revisitedreconstructed
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