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We found 19 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word turn back: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "turn back" is defined. General (16 matching dictionaries) turn back: Vocabulary.com [home, info] turn back: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] turn back: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] turn (sb) back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] turn back: Wiktionary [home, info] turn back: Dictionary.com [home, info] turn back: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] TURN BACK, Turn Back (The Pillows album), Turn Back (Toto album), Turn Back (album), Turn Back (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] turn back: Rhymezone [home, info] turn back: Free Dictionary [home, info] turn back: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] turn back: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] turn back: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] turn back: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) turn back: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) turn back: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) turn back: Idioms [home, info]

Quick definitions from WordNet (turn back) ▸ verb:  hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of ("Turn back the tide of communism") ▸ verb:  retrace one's course ("The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back") ▸ verb:  force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings ("The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers") ▸ verb:  go back to a previous state