Come Back

Definition: Come Back

Come Back

Verb

1. Come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity.

2. "Her old vigor returned".

3. Go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his".

4. Even the score, in sports.

5. Answer back.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Come Back

Arrival

Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Crosswords: Come Back

Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing? Come back to me- and forgive everything (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

The tux didn't come back from the cleaners (The Blues Brothers ; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis)

I've had a really lousy Christmas, you've just managed to kill my New Year's, if you come back on Easter- you can burn down my apartment (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow)

Please come back. My audiences miss the white devil in their midst (M. Butterfly; writing credit: David Henry Hwang.)

That's why I went away and didn't come back. You've got to go away, Robert (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

LET ME GO I'L COME BACK (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

'til you come back to me that's what I'm gonna do (Until You Come Back To Me; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

We might not come back at all (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper)

She needed to come back down to Earth (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Saying get that together come back and see me. (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Charleston Blue Come Back (1972)

Come Back Baby (1968)

Louvre Come Back to Me! (1962)

Africa Come Back (1956)

Little Sheba Come Back (1955)

Come Back Liza (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

When You Come Back To Me Again (performing artist: Garth Brooks)

Come Back To Me (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Come Back Alive: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Disasters, Kidnapping, Animal Attacks and Other Nasty Perils of Modern Travel (reference)

• Come Back, Barbara (reference)

• Gone to Come Back (reference)

• Ice Age Mammoth: Will This Ancient Giant Come Back to Life? (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Never Come Back (reference)

• Sometimes They Come Back (reference)

• Come Back, Little Sheba (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Come Back (reference)

• Come Back to Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A few come back. Credit: Library of Congress.

I'm going to look the house over again -- come back later and I may have some more scrap for you. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hey! Come back here. Credit: Library of Congress.

America can't come back. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Whoa, come back! Foul ball!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is a poor man’s freedom; the more he is beaten, the more he implores, and he prostrates himself as he goes down in the struggle, so that he may come back a little with his teeth. (Second Treatise of Government)

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We must go away from this house, but we shall come back, and we shall be very well off here

He thought that they must be swallows who had come back from the south

They waited for her to come back across the darkening yard, for Ma was powerful in the group

I fear my thoughts will not come back to me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

However, Crypto is usually not cured and may come back if the immune status worsens. (references)

If not, the bacteria can come back. You need to follow the doctor's directions exactly. (references)

If the patient then eats the food (under the doctor's direction) and the symptoms come back, then the diagnosis is confirmed. (references)

Business

Buying from the franchise dealer is often a matter of service and customers are prepared to spend extra money for this service and peace of mind. If a franchise dealer sells a product to a customer and there is a problem with it, the dealer can come back to the vehicle manufacturer with the problem. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

This situation is gradually changing as more Qatari students go the United States for higher education and come back to replace retiring British advisors in the areas of power generation and water desalination, municipal planning and physical development plan preparation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "come back": come back return to one's first love ♦ come back soon! ♦ come back to earth ♦ come back to life. Additional references.

Afrikaans

terugkom (return). (various references)

Albanian

më kujtohet (remembrance), kthehem (backtrack, bend, flounce, get back, go back, lurch, move back, redound, rejoin, return, set, slew, start back, take turns, turn aside, turn back, turn over, turn round, veer, wheel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏عاد (get back, pass back, regain, return, revert, roll in, step in, turn back), ‏رجع (assign, back, cut back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reestablish, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, revert, send back, snap back, step back, turn, turn back, turn in). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рязък отговор, връщам се (drive back, flow back, get back, go back, recur, regurgitate, revert, turn back), връщам си го (fix), обезщетение (amends, compensation, cover, damages, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recompense, recoupment, redress, reparation, satisfaction, solatium), изплувам в паметта, идвам на себе си (come to life again, re-collect, revive). (various references)

Chinese 

回來 (return). (various references)

Czech

znovunabytí moci, znovu přicházet do mody, vrátit se (get back, go back, redound, retrace, return, turn back), replika (rejoinder, replica), přijít zpìt, odpovìï (answer, rejoinder, reply, response, retort), návrat na scénu. (various references)

Danish

specifik anflyvningstid (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back), faktisk anflyvningstid (actual approaching time, actual time to leave the field and to come back). (various references)

Dutch

Come back, weeromkomen (return), wederkomen (return), wederkeren (return), terugkomen (return), terugkeren (go back, return). (various references)

Esperanto

reveni (return). (various references)

Faeroese

venda við (return), koma aftur (return). (various references)

Finnish

tulla takaisin (return), palata (get back, recur, re-enter, return, revert). (various references)

French

revenir (come again). (various references)

German

zurückkommen (bounce back, get back, hark back, move back, refer, return, revert, wander back), zurückkehren (go back, put back, return, revert, to return, to revert), zurückgekommen, zurückfahren (back, double back, drive back, go back, head back, move back, return, start back, to drive back), reagieren (obey, react, respond, take, to respond). (various references)

Greek 

γύρνα πίσω, επιστρέφω (drive back, get back, give back, rebound, recoil on, repossess, restore, return), επανέρχομαι (recur, rejoin, return, revert to), επανακάμπτω, ανταπαντώ (rejoin, reply, retort). (various references)

Guarani

jevýta (I shall come back), aju (I shall come back). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוב (go back, repeat, repent, return, revert), לחזור (come again, get back, go back, return, revert). (various references)

Hungarian

visszatérés (comeback, come-back, getting back, hark back, recovery, recurrence, regress, regression, return, reversion), visszajön (to be back, to come again, to take the back track), magához tér (come round, pull oneself together, to come back, to come round, to come to life, to come to oneself, to perk up, to rally, to recover oneself, to resuscitate). (various references)

Italian

tornare (backtrack, be back, become again, go back, return, to come back), rivenire (come, return), ritornare (become again, give back, go, go back, recur, report back, retrace, retrograde, return, revert, switch back, turn round). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"る (to come back, to go back, to return). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちもどる (to come back, to return), まいもどる (to come back), かえってくる (to come back, to return), かえりざく (to bloom a second time, to come back), かえる (frog, to alter, to amend, to change, to come back, to come home, to convert, to exchange, to go back, to go home, to hatch out, to interchange, to replace, to return, to revise, to send back, to substitute, to turn over, to turn upside down, to vary), いき�'ふきかえす (to come back to life), いえにかえる (to come back home, to go back home). (various references)

Papiamen

regresá (return), bolbe (go back, return). (various references)

Pig Latin

omecay ackbay.(various references)

Polish

powrócić (return). (various references)

Portuguese

voltar (come, come again, come up with, go back, overset, overthrow, return, run back, slue round, tip-over, turn, turn around, turn over, turn round, upset, wamble), regressar (go back, put back, regress, return, revert). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

tornar (to come back). (various references)

Quechua

kutimuni (I have come back, I have returned). (various references)

Romanian

se întoarce (be back, cant, come again, front, go back, re-enter, retrace, return, round, swing, turn). (various references)

Russian 

возражение (answer, back talk, demur, demurral, demurrer, deprecation, exception, objection, rejoinder, remonstrance, retort, return), возвращение (backpassing, come-back, reappearance, recurrence, refund, repatriation, restitution, resumption, retrieval, return), возвращаться возвращение (going back), возвращаться (cycle back, drive back, go back, recur, recurred, rejoin, retrace, revert back), возвратиться (make back), возмездие (recompense, requital, retaliation, retribution). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti se (drive back, get back, go back, move back, recur, relapse, return, revert), povratak (comeback, recovery, regress, return). (various references)

Spanish

volver (abduce, call back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), regresar (call back, comeback, get back, get in, go back, put back, return, take back, throw back). (various references)

Swedish

komma tillbaka (return, turn back), ge svar på tal, återkomma (recur, repeat). (various references)

Turkish

karşılık vermek (answer, answer back, counter, give back, hit back, reciprocate, repay, reply, respond, riposte, strike back, talk back), geri gelmek (regain, return), eski haline dönmek (revert), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, twist, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), aklına gelmek (come to one's mind, cross one's mind, enter one's head, occur one's mind, recur to one's memory, think of). (various references)

Turkmen 

dolanmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

вертатися, пригадуватися. (various references)

Wolof

dellusi. (various references)

Xhosa

ndizobuya (I will come back). (various references)

Zulu

-buya (go back, return). (various references)

gi. (various references)

recurrere, redeo, revenire, reverti, revertor, revertor reverti reversus, revertor, reverti, reversus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: comeback.

-2 letters: bemock, comake.

-3 letters: acock, bocce, cameo, comae, combe, mecca.

-4 letters: acme, ambo, amok, back, bake, beak, beam, beck, bema, bock, cake, came, ceca, coca, coke, coma, comb, come, kame, mabe, mace, mack, make, mako, mock, moke.

-5 letters: abo, ace, bam, boa, cab, cam, cob, kab, kae, kea, koa, kob, mac, mae, moa, mob, moc.

+1 letter: comebacks.

+4 letters: backcourtmen.