Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

retrace

/ɹiːˈtɹeɪs/ verb, noun

Forms retraces retracing retraced

verb (transitive) To trace (a line, etc. in drawing) again.
verb (transitive) To go back over something, usually in an attempt at rediscovery. “He retraced his steps, and found his keys where he had dropped them.”
verb (intransitive, finance) To undergo retracement.
noun (television) The period when the beam of the cathode-ray tube returns to its initial horizontal position in order to start the next line of the display.
noun (finance) An instance of retracement.

Synonyms

From French retracer, from Middle French retracier.

verb To trace back, as a line.
verb To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.

Etymology [Pref. re- + trace: cf. F. retracer. Cf. Retract.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “retrace”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details