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Verb: retrace  ri'treys
  1. To go back over again
    "we retraced the route we took last summer"
    - trace
     
  2. Reassemble mentally
    "retrace the events of 20 years ago"
    - reconstruct, construct

Derived forms: retraces, retraced, retracing

Type of: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise [Brit], hypothesize, return, speculate, suppose, theorise [Brit], theorize