TO TURN BACK

Definition: TO TURN BACK

TO TURN BACK

1. (a) To give back; to return. We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them. --Shak. (b) To cause to return or retrace one's steps; hence, to drive away; to repel. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: TO TURN BACK

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	See I'm moving on and I refuse to turn back (It's not right,but it's okay; performing artist: Whitney Houston)
Clever	You may not be able to turn back the clock, but you can always wind it up again. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Use in Literature: TO TURN BACK

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The mayor came to see him and urged him to turn back.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: TO TURN BACK

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Malaysia	Police set up roadblocks and monitored bus stations, train stations, and airports to turn back suspected opposition supporters. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO TURN BACK

Language		Translations for "TO TURN BACK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		umkehren (change one's ways, invert, overturn, retrace one's steps, reversal, reverse, turn around, turn back, turn inside out, turn upside down, turndown). (various references)

Hungarian		visszaküld (send back, to remit, to return), visszafordul (to shunt, to turn over, to wheel about, to wheel round, turn back), visszafordít (shunt, to bring about, to shunt, turn back, turn round). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		立ち�"る , �"ち�"す (to come and retreat, to plow up, to return a blow repeat, to rewhip), 戻る (to return). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たちかえる, うちかえす (to come and retreat, to plow up, to return a blow repeat, to rewhip), もどる (to return). (various references)

Maori		hoki-a. (various references)

Pig Latin		otay urntay ackbay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO TURN BACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-n-o-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: turncoat.
	-3 letters: backout, buttock, courant, cutbank, outback, outbark, outrank, runback.
	-4 letters: attorn, buckra, burton, button, cantor, carbon, carton, cobnut, contra, corban, cornua, cottar, craton, koruna, octant, outact, outran, ratton, rubato, tabour, toucan, truant, turaco, turban, turbot, uncork, untack.
	-5 letters: abort, about, acorn, actor, bacon, banco, baron, baton, battu, boart, bourn, bract, brank, brant, brock.
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