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without trace

without trace is the alternative form of without a trace.

Meaning of without a trace

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Without showing or leaving behind any sign of something; tracelessly.
    • We know where he lives but he's left his apartment without a trace.2007, James Saunders, Double Doublecross, page 218

Questions about without trace

What is without trace the alternative form of?
Without trace is the alternative form of without a trace.

Words near without trace in the dictionary

  1. without recourse
  2. without so much as a by your leave
  3. without so much as a by-your-leave
  4. without tea and biscuits
  5. without tears
  6. without trace
  7. without troubling the scorers
  8. without welt or guard
  9. without-door
  10. withoutcha
  11. withoutdoors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without trace (page history and authors); without a trace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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