rewind

verb

wind backwards, perhaps as a cassette, back to the beginning state

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈwaɪnd/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English wind English rewind From re- + wind.

The act of rewinding.
A button or other mechanism for rewinding.
“I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English wind English rewind From re- + wind.

To wind (something) again.
“A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.”
“[…] she was winding and rewinding bandages that were dripping in blood, smiling strangely at her as the plasma spilled from buckets all over the floor.”
To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
“Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.”
“Rewind the tape to the first chapter.”
To regress the state of playback of a recording.
“I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.”
“This video player can rewind smoothly.”
To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
“If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"”
“To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad. To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far. Just rewind to 2001, when George W. Bush naively sized up Vladimir Putin as a leader he could work with, a conclusion Bush reached when he looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.”