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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Back and forth.
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- adverb dated
Back andforth ; with analternating motion . - verb dated To go
back and forth ; toalternate . - adjective dated
Pertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the sameposition . - noun dated The movement (of someone or something)
forward followed by areturn to the sameposition . May refer to aconcept such as anemotional state or arelationship as well as aphysical thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb moving from one place to another and back again
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