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Verb
S:
(v)
backtrack
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turn back
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double back
(retrace one's course)
"The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
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S:
(v)
return
(go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)
"return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
S:
(v)
resurrect
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rise
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uprise
(return from the dead)
"Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"
S:
(v)
revisit
(visit again)
"We revisited Rome after 25 years"
S:
(v)
trace
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retrace
(to go back over again)
"we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
S:
(v)
backtrack
,
turn back
,
double back
(retrace one's course)
"The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
S:
(v)
cut back
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flash back
(return in time)
"the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
S:
(v)
home
(return home accurately from a long distance)
"homing pigeons"
S:
(v)
go home
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head home
(return home)
"After the movie, we went home"
S:
(v)
return
(return to a previous position; in mathematics)
"The point returned to the interior of the figure"
S:
(v)
boomerang
(return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang)
S:
(v)
bounce
(come back after being refused)
"the check bounced"
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