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Backtracking

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Word	Definition
turn backverb	(intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
double backverb	(idiomatic) To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
backslidingnoun	An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
retrogressionnoun	A deterioration or decline to a previous state.
regressnoun	(intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
retractionnoun	A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
retreatnoun	The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
tracenoun	An act of tracing.
trackingnoun	The act or process by which something is tracked.
declinenoun	The act of declining or refusing something.
plottingnoun	The act of scheming or making plots; machination.
crawlingnoun	The motion of something that crawls.
crawlverb	(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
tracingnoun	The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
rasternoun	(computer graphics) A bitmap image, consisting of a grid of pixels, stored as a sequence of lines.
sniffernoun	(networking) A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
row-backnoun	A backtrack or reversal of position; a U-turn.
retracingverb	Act of tracing again.
retraversalnoun	A traversal again; act of retraversing.
retraceverb	(transitive) To go back over something, usually in an attempt at rediscovery.