repacev.
/ˌriːˈpeɪs/, U.S. /riˈpeɪs/ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > in direction indicated
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to hang a left1967
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xxii. 43 Tritons..who..speed the rivers flowing race, But strongly stop the wave, if once it back repace.
1856 Household Words 2 Feb. 62/2 The one uniform,..inappropriate piece of human carpentery upon which these beautiful animals..pace and repace, and pass each other two hundred and fifty times an hour.
2. transitive. To traverse again with paces or steps. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread with measured steps > back or again
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1729 R. Savage Wanderer iv. 81 Wild beasts to gloomy dens repace their way.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. vi. 87/1 Let him in whom the flame of Devotion is ready to go out..pace and repace, with austerest thought, the pavement of Monmouth Street.
1887 E. S. Phelps Gates Between ix. 112 As I paced and repaced the narrow street where the money-makers..thronged, a great disgust descended upon me.
1908 E. L. White Narr. Lyrics 23 And repaced the corridors and moonlit porches To the chapel, empty ever since he left it.
1992 Times 7 Aug. 15/6 Investment through recession must be taken more cautiously, not ended forthwith but repaced.
2005 B. A. Mann George Washington's War on Native Amer. 86 After Newtown, for instance, the soldiers repaced the battlefield and routes of retreat, turning over bushes and looking under logs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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