backstep
go back
circle back
come back
wind back the clock
turn back
hark back
put back
refuge
retrocess
recover
return
take up
resume
rereturn
replace
unlose
pop off
regain
go walkabout
reoccur
resurrect
get back on the horse that bucked one
becover
harp
redivert
dwell
roll back
walkabout
swallow
reexperience
to and fro
back
backward and forward
resite
back and forth
back-ganging
retrocede
take back
bring back
give back
crab
retransfer
recall
retake
velvet
reget
apocatastasis
prodigal
backgain
pop out
retether
redound
retravel
reconvey
come home
remeant
restitution
turn back the clock
reentrain
redient
revenant
rewind
repeat
relive
rehappen
reabsent
look back
restore
regive
retrieve
come back from the dead
unmove
double back
reacquaint
fall back
reclaim
retrace
reslot
retour
rechange
revive
gain-
retrogress
dos a dos
repurchase
trace
retransition
revert
revisit
again
back
prodigal
backgain
remeant
redient
revenant
to and fro
backward and forward
back and forth
dos a dos
again
return
walkabout
back-ganging
apocatastasis
redound
restitution
retour
backstep
go back
circle back
come back
wind back the clock
turn back
hark back
put back
refuge
retrocess
recover
take up
resume
rereturn
replace
unlose
pop off
regain
go walkabout
reoccur
resurrect
get back on the horse that bucked one
becover
harp
redivert
dwell
roll back
swallow
reexperience
to and fro
resite
retrocede
return
take back
bring back
give back
crab
retransfer
recall
retake
velvet
reget
pop out
retether
retravel
reconvey
come home
turn back the clock
reentrain
rewind
repeat
relive
rehappen
reabsent
look back
restore
regive
retrieve
come back from the dead
unmove
double back
reacquaint
fall back
reclaim
retrace
reslot
rechange
revive
retrogress
repurchase
trace
retransition
revert
revisit
verb
- To return to a previous place or time.
- To retract or take back.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To take a step backwards
- To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
noun
- An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
- To return to where one has previously been; to retrace one's steps.
- To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event).
- To call back (hounds); to recall.
- Of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
noun
verb
- To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
- To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
- To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
- To cover again.
- To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
noun
noun
- the act of going back to a prior location
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- a coming to or returning home
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- getting something back again
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- a reciprocal group action
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the act of someone appearing again
verb
- bring back to the point of departure
- go back to something earlier
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- give back
- go back to a previous state
- return in kind
- make a return
- answer back
- be restored
- pay back
- pass down
- elect again
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- give or supply
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
verb
- return to a previous location or condition
- pursue or resume
- adopt
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- take up and practice as one's own
- occupy or take on
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- accept
- take in, also metaphorically
- take up as if with a sponge
verb
- To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back
- To place again.
- To put in a new or different place.
- To take over the position or role from.
- To take the place of; to be used instead of
- To refund; to repay; to pay back
- To supply or substitute an equivalent for
- To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.
verb
- To leave and return in a short time.
- To release flatulence, generally in short rapid succession.
- To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).
- To die suddenly.
- To thrust away, or put off promptly.
- To speak frankly.
- To kill someone.
- To fire or launch (a shot, projectile, or missile), especially singly or in small bursts.
- To turn off.
verb
noun
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
verb
- To retract; to recant.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
adj
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
postp
verb
- To back out of something.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- go back to something earlier
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- bring to mind
- summon to return
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- cause to be returned
noun
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- a call to return
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- the act of removing an official by petition
verb
- to retract.
- To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
- To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
- To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
- To soften; to mitigate.
noun
- The drug dextromethorphan.
- A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
- Money acquired by gambling.
- Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
- A female chinchilla; a sow.
adj
verb
noun
- Return to an earlier condition.
- An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople.
- Return to the same apparent position, as after a revolution.
- The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople.
noun
verb
- To reverberate, to echo.
- To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- To arise from or out of something.
- To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
verb
verb
- To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
- To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.
- To drag or slip through the ground of an anchor.
- To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
noun
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- A process of compensation for losses.
- The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
adj
verb
- To happen again; recur.
- To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To refill (a prescription).
- To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- To echo the words of (a person).
- To repay or refund (an excess received).
- To do or say again (and again).
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- To bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
noun
verb
- To regain or get back something.
- To remember or recall something.
- To fetch and bring in game.
- To salvage something
- To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- To rescue (a creature).
- To remedy or rectify something.
- To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- To claim something back; to repossess.
- To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
- To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
noun
verb
- To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate; to make lively again.
- To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression.
- To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
- To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state
- To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew, or to prevent from dying.
- To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
- To recover its natural or metallic state (e.g. a metal)
adv
noun
- A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
- A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
verb
- to go back over again
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- discover traces of
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
noun
- a just detectable amount
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
verb
- To return to the possession of.
- Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- To convert to Islam.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx² + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
noun
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- A convert to Islam.
adv
- Back (to a former place or state).
- Another time; once more.
- I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement.
- Over and above a factor of one.
- Moreover; besides; further.
- Here too, here also, in this case as well; used in applying a previously made point to a new instance; sometimes preceded by "here".
- Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.
- Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.
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