Take Back

Definition: Take Back

Take Back

Verb

1. Bring back to the point of departure.

2. Regain possession of something.

3. Resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband.

4. Move text to the previous line; in printing.

5. Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words".

6. Cause someone to remember the past; "This photo takes me back to the good old days".

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

Multilingual Slang

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

Synonyms: Take Back

Restitution

Redeem, recover; (get back); take back again.

Crosswords: Take Back

Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I take back all the nice things I said about you (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

I'm gonna take back some of the things I said about you Egon (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great (Labyrinth; writing credit: Dennis Lee; Jim Henson)

This is going to be one of those terrible mistakes, the ones you can't ever take back. (Just a Kiss; writing credit: Patrick Breen)

You can't take back every little chill you gave me (If I Fall You're Going Down With Me; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

We can't take back (Last Beautiful Girl; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

Take Back Your Wife (1917)

Women Take Back the Night March (1981)

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Books

• Take Back the Night a Novel (reference)

• Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible (reference)

• Take Back Your Life: Smart Ways to Simplify Your Daily Living (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Cotton treated with 0.5% Permethrin is collected by rodents to take back to their nests to kill fleas, preventing the transmission of Bubonic Plague & Colorado Tick Fever by such fleas and ticks to other rodents and people. Credit: CDC.

Take back the night. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Take back your wild beast

But you take back the word

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Business

Greeks travel extensively and during their travels, they are on the lookout for new business ideas to take back to Greece. (references)

New EU directives will compel the automobile companies to increase the proportion of recyclable materials used in their manufacture �" 80 percent of vehicle weight in 2006 rising to 85 percent in 2015. However, even greater concerns exist over proposals obliging the car producers, also from 2006, to take back vehicles at the end of their lives at no or little cost, to the owner. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The attacks appeared to be an effort by the FARC to take back the area around La Gabarra, which had been seized by paramilitaries in a series of attacks in 1999 that included three large massacres. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take back": take back again ♦ vendor take back mortgage. Additional references.

Albanian

tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, tow, tug, web, withdraw), marr mbrapsht (call back, recall, withdraw), kthej mbrapsht (Evert, return, reverse, upturn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏سحب كلامه (eat one's words, unsay), ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏إستانف (pick up), ‏إسترد (call, evict, get back, give back, recall, recapture, reconquer, recoup, recover, recuperate, regain, resume, retake, retrieve, return, withdraw), ‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, throw back). (various references)

Bulgarian 

връщам назад към минало, връщам (give back, hand back, head back, pay back, put back, recall, reimburse, repay, restore, return, roll back, send back, turn in), вземам думите си назад, завеждам обратно, занасям обратно, приемам обратно. (various references)

Chinese 

�"�回 (to regain, to retake, to revoke, to take back, to withdraw). (various references)

Czech

vzít zpátky, vrátit (counter, give back, hand back, put back, remit, repay, restore, retrieve, return, turn back), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take off, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw). (various references)

Danish

sælgertilbagetagelsespantebrev (vendor take back mortgage), sælgertilbagetagelsespant (vendor take back mortgage). (various references)

Dutch

verplichting tot terugnemen van de asielzoeker (obligation to take back the asylum seeker), overgedragen hypotheek (vendor take back mortgage), een eed intrekken (to take back an oath). (various references)

Finnish

epuuttaa (cancel, withdraw). (various references)

French

se reculer, retirer (take off), reprendre (take, take in), rapporter (tale, talk, tell tales), rappeler des souvenirs � , ramener, faire revenir. (various references)

German

zurücknehmen (bring back, call back, cancel, go back on, recant, retract, reverse, revoke, to take back, withdraw). (various references)

Greek 

ξαναπηγαίνω, ξαναπαίρνω (get back, recover, repossess, retake, ring back). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחזור בו (back down, back out of, back up, recant, reconsider, regret, repent, unsay). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavon (back down, conceal, revoke, to annul, to cry off, to recall, to recant, to repeal, to rescind, to retract, to revoke, to set back, to take back, unsay, withdraw), visszavesz (to resume, to take back), visszafogad (to re-admit, to re-engage, to take back). (various references)

Italian

riportare (bring again, bring back, carry, get, go back, quote, receive, refer, report, retrieve, take again), ricondurre (bring again, bring back), riaccompagnare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ツェツェ� � (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, thulium, tree, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

テークバック . (various references)

Manx

goaill er ash. (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay ackbay.(various references)

Portuguese

adquirir novamente (recover). (various references)

Russian 

возвращать возврат (return), отвозить, отводить (allot, back off, draw off, estop, march off, turn aside, withdraw), брать обратно (recall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratiti (bring back, give back, hand back, pay back, reclaim, refund, remand, render, replace, requite, restore, return, send back, turn back), uzeti natrag, povući (disaffirm, draw off, keep back, pull, recall, retire, scratch, take, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

trasladar al reglón anterior, sacar otra vez, retrasar (back up, check, delay, hold up, pull back, put back, retard, set back, sojourn, turn back), regresar (call back, come back, comeback, get back, get in, go back, put back, return, throw back), recordar (bear in mind, bethink, bring back, eventide, hark back to, look back on, recall, recollect, remember, remind, retrace, retrospect, think, to remember), recibir otra vez, recibir devuelto, devolver (bring back, devolve, give back, hand back, hit back, pay back, put back, refund, render, repay, restore, return, send back, send in, throw back), desdecirse, cobrar otra vez. (various references)

Swedish

ta tillbaka (declare off, recant, renege), föra tillbaka (carry back), återta (cancel, evict, recapture, resume). (various references)

Turkish

geri almak (claw back, declare off, draw back, recall, recapture, resume, retake, retract, retrieve, revoke, set back, swallow, turn back, withdraw), geçmişe götürmek, eskiyi hatırlatmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

відводити (abduct, allot, appoint, apportion, assign, avert, drain, draw away, shunt), нагадувати (admonish, bethink, bring to mind, call to mind, remind), брати назад (deny, revoke). (various references)

receperit, recepistis, recepto, receptum, recipere, reciperet, recipero, recipiat, recipies, recipiet. (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

-3 letters: aback, abate, aceta.

-4 letters: abet, acta, back, bake, bate, beak, beat, beck, beta, cake, cate, kaka, kata, keck, tace, tack, taka, take, teak.

-5 letters: aba, ace, act, ate, baa, bat, bet, cab, cat, eat, eta, kab, kae, kat, kea, tab, tae, tea.

+3 letters: backtracked.