rewind

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To wind (something) again.
2. verb To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.

   Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.

3. verb To regress the state of playback of a recording.

   I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.

4. verb To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
5. noun The act of rewinding.
6. noun A button or other mechanism for rewinding.

   I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.

Similar words

rollback regress backtrack retrogressive backward rewrite back reverse retract fallback

Often followed by

the and button it to knob a or crank

Word family

rewinding rewinds rewound