Thesaurus / turn back
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synonyms for turn back
- acknowledge
- act
- answer
- behave
- counter
- feel
- perform
- proceed
- reply
- revert
- backfire
- boomerang
- echo
- function
- operate
- rebound
- reciprocate
- recoil
- recur
- return
- take
- work
- answer back
- be affected
- bounce back
- get back at
- give a snappy comeback
- give back
- have a funny feeling
- have vibes
- talk back
- persist
- reappear
- iterate
- recrudesce
- reiterate
- repeat
- return
- revert
- be remembered
- be repeated
- come again
- come and go
- come back
- crop up again
- haunt thoughts
- return to mind
- run through one's mind
- degenerate
- deteriorate
- ebb
- fall back
- fall off
- recede
- revert
- backslide
- lapse
- relapse
- retreat
- retrogress
- sink
- fall away
- go back
- lose ground
- roll back
- throw back
- degenerate
- fall back
- backslide
- fade
- fail
- fall
- lapse
- recidivate
- regress
- retrogress
- revert
- sicken
- sink
- suffer
- worsen
- be overcome
- be overtaken
- slide back
- slip back
- be remembered
- be repeated
- come again
- come and go
- come back
- crop up again
- haunt thoughts
- iterate
- persist
- reappear
- recrudesce
- reiterate
- repeat
- return
- return to mind
- revert
- run through one's mind
- overturn
- shift
- about-face
- back
- backpedal
- backtrack
- capsize
- evert
- exchange
- flip-flop
- interchange
- inverse
- invert
- rearrange
- retreat
- revert
- switch
- transfer
- transpose
- upend
- upset
- back up
- double back
- evaginate
- go back
- go backwards
- move backwards
- transplace
- turn around
- turn over
- degenerate
- go back
- hark back
- react
- regress
- about-face
- backslide
- change
- decline
- deteriorate
- flip-flop
- invert
- lapse
- recrudesce
- recur
- relapse
- resume
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- transpose
- turn
- come back
- fall off the wagon
- inverse
- take up where left off
- throw back
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How to use turn back in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSTurn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONWORDS RELATED TO TURN BACK
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