Go Back

Definition: Go Back

Go Back

Verb

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

2. Belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years".

3. Return in thought or speech to something.

4. Regain a former condition; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90".

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

Synonyms: Go Back

Nonobservance

Retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter; stretch a point, strain a point.

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.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Crosswords: Go Back

Why can't things just go back to normal at the end of the half hour, like on the Brady Bunch? (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Or worse still, go back to vaudeville! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.)

Why don't you go back to your double-wide and fry something! (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

I just want to go back to my room to think things over. (The Shining; writing credit: Diane Johnson and Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel by Stephen King.)

Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I just wanna go back (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I wanna know that, that we can go back (And Our Feelings; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Daryl Simmons)

You can tell my arms to go back onto the phone (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

Just go back and hit 'em up style (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell)

They just might go back to Oklahoma (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

Don't ever slam a door. You may want to go back. (references; author: unknown)

Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)

Go Back Out (1995)

Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? (1993)

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

Books

• I Don't Want to Go Back to School (reference)

• My Roots Go Back to Loving: And Other Stories from "Year of the Family" (reference)

• You Can't Go Back, Exactly (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Nedra, he pronounced huskily, after a moment : I've got to leave soon, and go back to the world, and then all these beautiful days must end. Credit: Library of Congress.

Once I tried to go back; but she turned and looked at me. Credit: Library of Congress.

Go back and pick up your gun!. Credit: Library of Congress.

I wanta go back to Rome!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who me go back home? : Why I've always lived in Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hey, go back!. Credit: Library of Congress.

I've got an idea for '96- I go back, I beg forgiveness, play the whole redemption bit, the reformed underdog back from Hell, I get re-elected, we take over... / / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska. Overland train passengers go back to their cars after ten minute train stop on trip between San Francisco and Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress.

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working. She: "I want to go back to where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat.". Credit: Library of Congress.

Section four. Liberty bonds getting kicked around and howling "I wanta go back to par". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1899)

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Then she beckoned Sylvie to come and take his hand, and signed to the children to go back to where the Earl was seated.

For this we must go back a few years.

I will go back.

The girl started to go back in the tent.

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Health

Limit the number of sex partners, and do not go back and forth between partners. (references)

If this happens, you'll go back to some form of dialysis and possibly wait for another transplant. (references)

In that case, the doctor may ask the patient to go back and keep a record of the contents of each meal and whether he or she had a reaction. (references)

Business

Most of the maintenance and repair services (computer, plumbing, electrical, clothes, shoe, automobile, and many others) are usually performed by small, inefficient and unreliable shops and/or by individuals that don't guarantee their work. Frequently, a client has to go back to the shop several times before being satisfied with the maintenance/repair job. Repair services provided at home, like plumbing and electricity are extremely inefficient and unprofessional, done with inadequate materials, by individuals that generally have not had proper training. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

The sources of Japan's economic difficulties go back to the collapse of the asset-price bubble in 1991, which left the banking and corporate sector with excessive and often unproductive investment and a huge volume of bad debts. (references)

Indonesia

The members of the United Nations Security Council have stressed the importance of the Indonesian government honoring its commitments to allow the safe return of all East Timorese who wish to go back to East Timor, dismantle the anti-independence militias now resident in West Timor, and bring to justice those responsible for the 1999 violence and for the murders of a UN Peacekeeper and three UNHCR personnel (including an American citizen) by Indonesians in 2000. (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 "go back": go back and forth ♦ go back home ♦ go back into ♦ go Back N ♦ go back on ♦ go back on a friend ♦ go back on one's word ♦ go back on smb. ♦ go back smb.'s word ♦ go back to ♦ go back to school ♦ go back to your place! ♦ go back upon one's word ♦ To go back on. Additional references.

Afrikaans

agteruitgaan (decline, go backwards, recede). (various references)

Albanian

shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), kthehem (backtrack, bend, come back, flounce, get 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 

‏حنث بوعده, ‏رجع في كلامه (renege), ‏رجع (assign, back, come back, cut back, get back, give 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 

връщам се (come back, drive back, flow back, get back, recur, regurgitate, revert, turn back), водя началото си от, завръщам се, западам (come down, decay, dwindle, fail, falter, molder, moulder, sag, sink, turn down). (various references)

Catalan

tornar (return). (various references)

Chinese 

回去 (return). (various references)

Czech

vrátit se (come back, get back, redound, retrace, return, turn back). (various references)

Dutch

weer gaan (return), verslechteren (accentuate, aggravate, decline, fall off), terugtrekken (draw back, retreat, return, withdraw), teruglopen (go down, return), terugkeren (come back, return), teruggaan (go backwards, return), terugdeinzen (go backwards), achteruitgaan (decline, fall off, go backwards, recede). (various references)

Esperanto

reiri (return), posteniri (go backwards), malpliboniĝi (decline, fall off). (various references)

Finnish

palata työhönsä (go back to one's work, resume one's work). (various references)

French

revenir sur sa promesse, revenir sur sa parole, réintégrer. (various references)

German

zurückkehren (come back, put back, return, revert, to return, to revert), zurückgehen (abate, check back, cut back, double back, fall back, fall off, get back, go down, head back, peak off, reach back, recede, reminiscence, retreat, retrograde, return, sag, shrink, slip back, to go back, to retrograde, trace back, turn back). (various references)

Greek 

ξαναγυρίζω (come full circle), πάω πίσω, ανατρέχω (backdate, consult, look up, recur, trace back), αθετώ (abrogate, breach, default, violate). (various references)

Hebrew 

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

Hungarian

visszanyúl, visszamegy (get back, retrace, to go back, to remount, to retrace). (various references)

Indonesian

kembali (back, return). (various references)

Italian

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

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

ねなおす (to go back to bed), さく�'�" (curtailment, cut, go back to the beginning, reduction, retrace, return to the origin), さかのぼる (to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive), かよう (available, ballad, caring for the sick, comely face, floral leaf, in such a manner, like this, lotus leaf, lower leaves, solubilizing, soluble, song, taking care of oneself, to attend, to commute, to go back and forth, to ply between, Tuesday), 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), いきかう (to come and go, to go back and forth), いえにかえる (to come back home, to go back home), ゆきかう (to come and go, to go back and forth). (various references)

Manx

goll sheear (moon, stars, stars), sun, west, west of ship, wester, wester of wind), goll er ash (ascend, ascend genealogy, draw back, regress, regression, retrospective, return, reversal, reversion, revert), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references)

Papiamen

bolbe (come back, return). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay ackbay

Portuguese

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

Romanian

se întoarce (be back, cant, come again, come back, front, re-enter, retrace, return, round, swing, turn), se înapoia (come back, return), reveni (call again, come, come again, devolve to smb., devolve upon smb., get back, reappear, recede, recur, relapse, repass, retract, return, revert), regresa (regress, retrogress). (various references)

Russian 

возвращаться (come back, cycle back, drive back, recur, recurred, rejoin, retrace, revert back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti se (come back, drive back, get back, move back, recur, relapse, return, revert), nazadovati (regress, retrogress). (various references)

Spanish

volver (abduce, call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, hark back, put back, return, ride back, throw back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), retroceder (back, back away, back up, fall back, flinch, give ground, go backwards, move back, move backwards, push back, recede, regress, retrogress, stand back, turn back, walk backward). (various references)

Swedish

återvända (get back, put back, return, turn back), återgå (be cancelled, lapse, regress, revert). (various references)

Turkish

geri gitmek (recede, regress, repass, retrocede, retrograde), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, 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). (various references)

Ukrainian

відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), повертатися назад. (various references)

Zulu

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

recedam, recede, recedent, recedentibus, recedere, recedes, recedet, recesserat, recesseruntque, recessi, recessisse, recessisti, recessit, redeant, redeat, redeundi, redeunt, redeunte, redeuntes, redeuntique, redi, rediebant, redient, redierant, redieris, rediero, redierunt, rediet, rediit, redire, redirent, rediret, redisset, redistis, redit, redite, reditum, reditus, regredi, regredietur, regressae, regressi, regresso, regressum, regressus, regressusque, repedabat, reversa, reversae, reversaeque, reversam, reversi, reversique, reversum, reversurum, reversurus, reversus, reversusque, revertamini, revertamur, revertantur, revertar, revertaris, revertatur, revertebantur, revertebatur, revertebaturque, revertemini, revertemur, revertendi, revertens, revertensque, revertente, revertentem, revertentes, revertentesque, revertenti, revertentia, revertentibus, revertentium, revertentur, revertere, reverteremur, reverterentur, reverteretur, reverteris, reverterunt, revertetur, reverti, revertimini, revertissent, revertitur, revertiturque, revertuntur. (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

-2 letters: back, bock.

-3 letters: abo, ago, bag, boa, bog, cab, cob, cog, gab, goa, gob, kab, koa, kob, oak, oca, oka.

-4 letters: ab, ag, ba, bo, go, ka.

+1 letter: backlog, hogback.

+2 letters: backlogs, blockage, brockage, hogbacks.

+3 letters: blockages, brockages.

+4 letters: backgammon, background, backlogged, becloaking, blockading.

+5 letters: backgammons, backgrounds, backlogging, bivouacking.