Usually means: Return to an earlier point.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word turn back:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. turn back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turn back: Merriam-Webster
  3. turn-back, turn back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turn back: Vocabulary.com
  5. turn (sb) back: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. turn back: Wiktionary
  7. turn back: Dictionary.com
  8. Turn Back (Toto album), Turn Back (album), Turn Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. turn back: Rhymezone
  10. turn back: FreeDictionary.org
  11. turn back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. turn back: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turn back: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turn back: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (turn back)

verb:  (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
verb:  To return to a previous state of being.
verb:  (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
verb:  (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
verb:  (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.

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