Usually means: Return to a previous place.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. go back: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. go back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go back: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go back: Vocabulary.com
  5. go back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. go-back, go back: Wiktionary
  7. go back: Dictionary.com
  8. Go-Back, Go Back (Jeanette song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. go back: Rhymezone
  10. go back: Free Dictionary
  11. go back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. go back: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go back: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go back: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (go back)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

Similar:
return, come back, get back, recover, recur, date back, date from, circle back, retrace one's steps, reverse, more...

Opposite:
forward, continue, advance

Phrases:
go back on, go back n, go back to nature, go back to the drawing board, to go back on, more...

Adjectives:
reverse, reverted, back to square one, rear, retrograde, recess, fallback, returned, receding, backing, invert

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Similar:
return, come back, get back, recover, recur, date back, date from, circle back, retrace one's steps, reverse, more...

Opposite:
forward, continue, advance

Phrases:
go back on, go back n, go back to nature, go back to the drawing board, to go back on, go back a long way, go back to, go back to square one, go back over, Go Back to China, You Gotta Go There to Come Back, more...

Adjectives:
reverse, reverted, back to square one, rear, retrograde, recess, fallback, returned, receding, backing, invert



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