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  • verb To retract an earlier statement
  • verb To cause to remember some past event or time
  • verb To resume a relationship
  • verb To regain possession of something
  • verb To return something

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause someone to remember the past
  • verb resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
  • verb regain possession of something
  • verb bring back to the point of departure
  • verb move text to the previous line; in printing
  • verb take back what one has said

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