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Turn back

verb

Verb

1
To reverse direction and retrace one's steps. intransitive
"Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office."
2
turn inside out or upside down wordnet
3
To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps. transitive
"The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers."
4
go back to a previous state wordnet
5
To return to a previous state of being.
"He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways."

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6
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of wordnet
7
To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress. transitive
"The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier."
8
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings wordnet
9
To adjust to a previous setting. transitive
"In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour."
10
retrace one's course wordnet
11
To fold something back; to fold down. transitive
"When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket."
12
To give back; to return. obsolete, transitive
"We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands."

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