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“traced”
trace (verb), traces; traced; tracing
1. To find out where someone or something is or who or what anyone or something was; such as, to trace a wounded buffalo; tracing a missing child.
2. To follow or to show the course or series of developments of something, or be able to be followed back in time or to a source; for example, to determine the successive stages in the development or progress of someone or something; tracing the life cycle of an ant colony; traced the history of a family ancestry.
3. To copy writing, a design, or drawing by putting translucent paper on top of it and drawing the visible outlines on that paper.
4. To locate or to discover something by searching or researching available evidence; such as, to trace the cause of a disease or a mental illness.
5. To locate origins or to be able to locate the linguistic features of words back to their beginnings: "Scholars can determine the historical origins of English words by tracing them to their Germanic, French, and Latin or Greek origins."
2. To follow or to show the course or series of developments of something, or be able to be followed back in time or to a source; for example, to determine the successive stages in the development or progress of someone or something; tracing the life cycle of an ant colony; traced the history of a family ancestry.
3. To copy writing, a design, or drawing by putting translucent paper on top of it and drawing the visible outlines on that paper.
4. To locate or to discover something by searching or researching available evidence; such as, to trace the cause of a disease or a mental illness.
5. To locate origins or to be able to locate the linguistic features of words back to their beginnings: "Scholars can determine the historical origins of English words by tracing them to their Germanic, French, and Latin or Greek origins."
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tra-, tract-, trac-, -tractive, -traction, -tracting, treat-, trai-
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