re-tread

American  

[ree-tred] / riˈtrɛd /

verb (used with or without object)

re-trod, re-trodden, re-trod, re-treading

1. to tread again.

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re-tread British  

/ riːˈtrɛd /

verb

1. (tr) to tread or walk over (one's steps) again

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Etymology

Origin of re-tread

First recorded in 1590–1600; re- + tread

Example Sentences

And when you die, you can choose to resurrect at the last site of grace you activated or a special statue you’ve passed, potentially saving you from an arduous re-tread through a difficult area.

From The Verge • Nov. 10, 2021

“He doesn’t want to re-tread ground that he’s covered before,” Wayne Kramer, the guitarist and co-founder of the Detroit rock band the MC5, told me.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

But it’s a bit incomplete to simply call this a re-tread of HBO’s bro-tastic dramedy.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2015

Partners was a mediocre Will & Grace re-tread, written by that show's authors and apparently determined to drag us all back to the sitcom stylings of the mid-1990s.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2012

Should some great angel say to me to-morrow,   “Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start,But God will grant, in pity, for thy sorrow,   Some one dear wish, the nearest to thy heart.”

From Poems of Power by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler