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retracer

trace, track down, recount, retrace

re again; back + tracer to draw, to trace
verb Rare #51,714
trace, track down When referring to a person, it often means to find or locate them.
FR: La police essaie de retracer le propriétaire de la voiture.
EN: The police are trying to track down the owner of the car.
recount, retrace Used for reconstructing or telling the sequence of past events.
FR: Elle veut retracer les événements de cette journée.
EN: She wants to recount the events of that day.

Vous pouvez le retracer ?

Can you trace it?

— Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Assez attentivement pour nous retracer ses faits et gestes.

Carefully enough to retrace his actions for us.

À retracer les derniers jours de ma femme.

To retracing my wife's final days.

— Ne le dis à personne (2006)

Le gros du travail a été de retracer les registres.

Most of the work was tracking down the records.

— Incendies (2010)