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gave back

verb as in fall back

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Among those who gave back France to the French were the men of the Polish II Corps, composed of 80 tanks and 1,500 infantry.

After the ceremony, the Greek gave back the ten grand and kept what was left of the dollar for a souvenir.

After protesting that there was no procedure for this, the girl grudgingly gave back the whole fourteen dollars.

"Not quite," returned Dorothy, trying to laugh, as she gave back to her mother the empty tumbler.

Men began to cry out that De Valmont no longer gave back the Norman's blows; only parried.

Soon the captain drove his implement through the hay, and against something that gave back a resistance like that of soft pine.

The diary he gave back to Anna; but, unobserved by her, he cut out the page on which were the words underlined.

A loud grunt came from one man—followed by another until the hollow walls gave back like a hundred tom-toms.

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On this page you'll find 227 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gave back, such as: acknowledge, act, answer, behave, counter, and feel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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