traverse
verb (used with object)
to pass or move over, along, or through.
retraverse
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a word derived from
traverse.
Example Sentences
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Problems of Church government had come to the front, and he proposed to retraverse his subject, narrowing it into a history of the papacy.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
The great halls have a power to make one retraverse their space I have yet to find under other vaulted chambers.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
If the ray be reflected after passage, and made to retraverse the medium, the rotation is annulled in the latter case, it is doubled in the former.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
In recapitulation, in summary, in symbol, we retraverse, from the embryo to the corpse, the history of life on earth for millions of years.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
