Definition of "re-tread" []

• To tread upon or engage in treading again. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Now the next episode looks like a re-tread with a slower pace."
• "However, readers who follow anyone for a length of time soon catch on to this trick and realize they are simply being fed a re-tread of the same information."
• "For a show that is basically a re-tread of The X-Files, I'm getting hooked into the mystery and suspect a huge SF payoff in the near future."