retrotraer

v.

1 to set in the past (relato).

2 to take back, to carry back.

La hipnosis lo retrotrajo al año pasado Hypnosis took him back to last year.

3 to date back.

Ellos retrotrajeron los documentos They antedated the documents.

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retrotraer

Conjugation model [TRAER], like {{link=traer}}traer

► verbo transitivo

1 to predate

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VT to carry back (in time), take back

retrotrajo su relato a los tiempos del abuelo — he carried his tale back into his grandfather's day

ahora podemos retrotraer su origen al siglo XI — now we can take its origin further back to the 11th century

piensa retrotraer el problema a su origen — he hopes to trace the problem back to its origin

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1.

verbo transitivo <persona/sistema> to take ... back

2.

retrotraerse v pron to go back

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1.

verbo transitivo <persona/sistema> to take ... back

2.

retrotraerse v pron to go back

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retrotraer [E23 ]

vt

‹persona/sistema› to take … back

posteriores búsquedas los retrotrajeron al año 800 subsequent research led them back to the year 800

■ retrotraerse

v pron

to go back

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retrotraer

♦ vt

[relato] to set in the past;

una historia que nos retrotrae a la Rusia zarista a story which takes us back to tsarist Russia

♦ See also the pronominal verb retrotraerse