retraversev.
/ˌriːˈtravəs/, /ˌriːtrəˈvəːs/, U.S. /ˌritrəˈvərs/ transitive. To traverse again or repeatedly; esp. to travel across or through (a route, a place, etc.) for a second or further time. Also intransitive.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground > again
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1647 Reading R. Brook upon Statute of Limitations iii. 61 The vendee enters, the Infant ousts him, and continueth by 60. yeares, the vendee may re-enter, and retraverse, and if hee be ousted, may have a Writ of Right.
1774 S. Bentley Poems 125 See Dove as a parting Salute, Bent seems to retraverse its course, Recoiling with sudden Volute.
1843 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 597 Dr. Pusey, in a work with his own signature, re-traversed nearly the same ground.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos vii. 86 He is busied from sunset until midnight-hour in re-traversing the..streets.
1875 A. Geikie Life Sir R. I. Murchison I. xiii. 274 If my conjectures are right, I shall find there Devonian passing conformably under it, and I shall then retraverse to Cologne and Bonn.
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. New Test. 118 After some time he re-traversed the route which he had taken in his second tour.
1988 P. White Lore New Mexico ii. 20 These adventurous travelers relentlessly traversed and retraversed this land.
2006 Observer (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Review section) 26 He doggedly retraverses his early Italian travels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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