Go back

Definitions

To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“We were getting cold so we decided to go back.”

“Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.”

“He tried to persuade⟳ Cicely to stay⟳ away from the ball-room for a fourth dance⟳. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.”

“Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest. Wrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back.”

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