Verb

• S: (v) fall back (fall backwards and down)
• S: (v) lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) lag [Related to: lag] (the act of slowing down or falling behind)
• W: (n) lagger [Related to: lag] (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)
• W: (n) laggard [Related to: lag] (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)
• W: (n) dawdler [Related to: dawdle] (someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) fall back (move back and away from) "The enemy fell back"
• S: (v) fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede (retreat)
• S: (v) fall back, resort, recur (have recourse to) "The government resorted to rationing meat"
• S: (v) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back (go back to bad behavior) "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"