Communication
Synonyms for trace
Synonyms for trace: shadow, retrace, follow and hint. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for trace
Interchangeable with trace, one per sense
Audited under trace's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one trace carries in that sense.
- shadownoun, in the sense "an indication that something has been present"
- retraceverb, in the sense "to go back over again"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name trace as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under trace's own senses. The second reach trace from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
an indication that something has been present
There wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim.
trace in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The audit turned up no trace of the missing funds in the company's records.
- She scrubbed the counter until there wasn't a trace of the spilled sauce left.
How it behaves: Trace in this sense typically follows a negator in phrases like 'no trace of' or 'not a trace of', taking a noun phrase naming the missing evidence, in a neutral to formal register.
The true synonym
shadow
Same sentence, swapped: There wasn't a shadow of evidence for the claim.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- clue
- account
The opposite, in this sense
absence reverses trace as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of trace takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- absence
to go back over again
Trace your path.
The true synonym
retrace
Same sentence, swapped: Retrace your path.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for trace in the sentence quoted.
- hunt
- describe
- rise
Where trace turns up in the game
trace is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where trace is the trap
Play trace
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trace reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from communication at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. trace carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.