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- verb Simple past of
retread .
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Examples
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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
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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
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Jim retrod the miles to the kiln, and looked to the fires.
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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
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Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.
The Last Man 2003
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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
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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
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Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.
III.5 1826
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Glad to have escaped, yet melancholy in my very joy, I retrod my steps to Versailles.
The Last Man 1826
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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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