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go back en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
   • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side. 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
   • Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.
   • We were getting cold so we decided to go back.
   • Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest. Wrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

Forms

Deriveds

go back to your country · go back to where you came from · go back to · go back on

Relateds

come back · turn back

Translations (56)

my ပြန် (to return to a place) · km ត្រឡប់ (to return to a place) · wa rinoyî (to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something) · lo ກັບໄປ (to return to a place) · ru верну́ться (to return to a place) · gl retornar (to return to a place) · ru простира́ться (to extend into past time) · wa rivni (to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something) · de zurückgehen (to return to a place) · ko 돌아가다 (to return to a place) · ru возвраща́ться (to return to a place) · wa rimagnî (to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something) · wa s' awè cnoxhou (to have known each other) · fr retourner (to return to a place) · ru возврати́ться (to return to a place) · eo reiri (to return to a place) · pt voltar (to return to a place) · ja 帰る (to return to a place) · nrf rentrer (to return to a place) · ru быть знако́мыми (to have known each other) · uga 𐎘𐎁 (to return to a place) · io retroirar (to return to a place) · ckb ڕۆیشتنەوە (to return to a place) · fi mennä takaisin (to return to a place) · it tornare (to return to a place) · ru дати́роваться (to extend into past time) · vi trở lại (to return to a place) · chr ᎢᎦᎷᎦ (to return to a place) · sw kurejea (to return to a place) · nl teruggaan (to return to a place) · lo ເມືອ (to return to a place) · ru брать нача́ло (to extend into past time) · ota دونمك (to return to a place) · fr rentrer (to return to a place) · chr ᎢᎡᎦ (to return to a place) · io regresar (to return to a place) · la redeō (to return to a place) · ms kembali (to return to a place) · de zurückfahren (to return to a place) · cmn 返回 (to return to a place) · lad tornar atras (to return to a place) · ja 戻る (to return to a place) · fur tornâ (to return to a place) · fr revenir (to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something) · eo reveturi (to return to a place) · uk повертатися (to return to a place) · cmn 回去 (to return to a place) · gl voltar (to return to a place) · ro întoarce (to return to a place) · gl volver (to return to a place) · hu visszamegy (to return to a place) · th กลับไป (to return to a place) · wa raler (to return to a place) · io rivenar (to return to a place) · gl regresar (to return to a place) · fi palata (to return to a place)