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turn back

Definitions

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  • verb intransitive To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
  • verb To return to a previous state of being.
  • verb transitive To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
  • verb transitive To adjust to a previous setting.
  • verb transitive To fold something back; to fold down

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

  • verb go back to a previous state
  • verb hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
  • verb retrace one's course
  • verb turn inside out or upside down
  • verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

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synonyms (146)

Words with the same meaning

  1. about ship
  2. assimilate to
  3. avert
  4. back and fill
  5. bear away
  6. bear off
  7. bear to starboard
  8. beat
  9. beat about
  10. beat back
  11. become
  12. box off
  13. break
  14. break back
  15. bring about
  16. bring round
  17. bring to
  18. brush off
  19. cant
  20. cant round
  21. cast
  22. cast about
  23. change
  24. change back
  25. change course
  26. change into
  27. change over
  28. change the heading
  29. chase
  30. chase away
  31. chase off
  32. come about
  33. come again
  34. come back
  35. come home
  36. come up again
  37. convert
  38. cry back
  39. cut
  40. dismiss
  41. do a flip-flop
  42. do an about-face
  43. do over
  44. double
  45. double a point
  46. double back
  47. draw aside
  48. drive away
  49. drive back
  50. ease off
  51. echo
  52. edge off
  53. fend off
  54. fetch about
  55. flip-flop
  56. fly off
  57. gee
  58. glance
  59. glance off
  60. go about
  61. go back
  62. go home
  63. go off
  64. gybe
  65. hark back
  66. haw
  67. head off
  68. heave round
  69. hold off
  70. jib
  71. jibe
  72. jibe all standing
  73. keep coming
  74. keep off
  75. make
  76. make over
  77. make way for
  78. miss stays
  79. move aside
  80. naturalize
  81. pack off
  82. ply
  83. push back
  84. put about
  85. put back
  86. react
  87. reappear
  88. rebuff
  89. reconvert
  90. recur
  91. reduce to
  92. refuse
  93. render
  94. reoccur
  95. repeat
  96. repel
  97. repulse
  98. resolve into
  99. resound
  100. resume
  101. return
  102. reverberate
  103. reverse
  104. revert
  105. round a point
  106. send away
  107. send off
  108. send packing
  109. sheer
  110. sheer off
  111. shift
  112. shove aside
  113. shunt
  114. shy
  115. shy off
  116. side
  117. sidestep
  118. sidetrack
  119. sidle
  120. slew
  121. snub
  122. spurn
  123. steer clear of
  124. step aside
  125. swerve
  126. swing round
  127. swing the stern
  128. switch
  129. switch over
  130. tack
  131. throw about
  132. thrust back
  133. transform
  134. turn
  135. turn about
  136. turn around
  137. turn aside
  138. turn away
  139. turn into
  140. veer
  141. veer off
  142. ward off
  143. wear
  144. wear ship
  145. wind
  146. yaw

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. alter
  2. change
  3. modify
  4. return

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