Verb

• S: (v) backtrack, turn back, double back (retrace one's course) "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
• S: (v) revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back (go back to a previous state) "We reverted to the old rules"
• S: (v) chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings) "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
• S: (v) check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of) "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
• S: (v) turn back, invert, reverse (turn inside out or upside down)