retread
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English tread English retread From re- + tread (verb).
- A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
“But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.”
“It uses a howitzer to shoot drugged fish in a barrel, inserts flabby lite-surrealism where the comedy might otherwise go and the plot turns out to be a retread of JM Barrie’s stage-play The Admirable Crichton.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English tread English retread From re- + tread (verb).
- To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
“As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. 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. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.”