Verb retrace has 2 senses
- trace, retrace - to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
--1 is one way to return, go back, get back, come back
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- reconstruct, construct, retrace - reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
--2 is one way to speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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