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  • verb Simple past of retread.

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Examples

  • With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth, and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time, and exchanged the discoveries of recent enquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchymists.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • That Avatar merely retrod territory we've seen on the big screen a thousand times before hardly mattered given the visual ambition and the pitch-perfect performances.

    Audiences will be blue in the face after Avatar: Special Edition 3D 2010

  • Jim retrod the miles to the kiln, and looked to the fires.

    The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

  • With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

    Frankenstein 2003

  • Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Here, on the first land he retrod, he dedicated his winged oarage to thee, O Phoebus, in the vast temple he built.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Sadly and quietly, the troops retrod the familiar mud of their old camp grounds.

    Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong

  • Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.

    III.5 1826

  • Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.

    The Last Man 1826

  • Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

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