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as in: trace a picture or outline Define
copy the lines of an image; or draw an outline; or carefully draw a specific pattern
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- Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding.
- She used her finger to trace a rout on the map.
- She used a stick to trace a mysterious symbol on the sand.
- Yes, it was gone; almost the last trace of their labour was gone!
- Their first act was to gallop in a body right round the boundaries of the farm, as though to make quite sure that no human being was hiding anywhere upon it; then they raced back to the farm buildings to wipe out the last traces of Jones’s hated reign.
- At every few steps Napoleon stopped and snuffed the ground for traces of Snowball’s footsteps, which, he said, he could detect by the smell.
- He snuffed in every corner, in the barn, in the cow-shed, in the henhouses, in the vegetable garden, and found traces of Snowball almost everywhere.
- There was not a trace of the defendant’s DNA at the crime scene.
- The study found traces of cocaine on most $20 bills used in large cities of the United States and Canada.
- It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.
- Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll. They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
- Early cat domestication is traced back to China over 5,000 years ago.
- They traced the illnesses back to a single restaurant.
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a small quantity or indication
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to find, search, research, or keep track of
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as in: found a trace of Define
a small quantity or indication
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as in: trace the origin or development
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to find, search, research, or keep track of
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as in: trace a picture or outline
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copy the lines of an image; or draw an outline; or carefully draw a specific pattern
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as in: traced a path
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to follow
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