Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To traverse again.

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  • verb transitive To traverse again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ traverse

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Examples

  • The great halls have a power to make one retraverse their space, I have yet to find under other vaulted chambers.

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • I will not retraverse any ground I have covered before.

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

  • For a couple of miles I retraverse the path by which I reached Fat-shan before encountering a divergent pathway, acceptable as, leading distinctly toward the northwest.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • The great halls have a power to make one retraverse their space I have yet to find under other vaulted chambers.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

  • It remains there while the earth passes on, in a line nearly straight, from Mars to G; then, as the earth begins to curve around the sun, Mars will appear to retraverse the distance from F to

    Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871

  • We retraverse the valley, cross river Shyok at 15 km from Diskit and drive through rough dirt road with greenery on either side, dotted with wild roses, lavenders and many wild flowers in bloom.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • When, in desperation to see once more the light and all the things which linked me to life -- my little bed, the toys on the windowsill, my squirrel in its cage -- I forced myself to retraverse the empty house, expecting at every turn to hear my father's voice or come upon the image of my mother -- yes, such was the confusion of my mind, though I knew well enough even then that they were dead and that I should never hear the one or see the other.

    Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • When, in desperation to see once more the light and all the things which linked me to life -- my little bed, the toys on the window-sill, my squirrel in its cage -- I forced myself to retraverse the empty house, expecting at every turn to hear my father's voice or come upon the image of my mother -- yes, such was the confusion of my mind, though I knew well enough even then that they were dead and that I should never hear the one or see the other.

    The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • a very lucid one; I would gladly resume my lonely watches, my struggles with the darkness whence, at last, a glimmer appears as I continue to explore it; I should retraverse the irksome stages of yore, stimulated by the one desire that has never failed me, the desire of learning and of afterwards bestowing my mite of knowledge on others.

    The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Calderón, Shaftesbury, Voltaire, Goethe, Shelley — is to retraverse the history of Western thought (Trousson,

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

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