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Synonyms for turn back
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : turn |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɜrn |
Top 10 synonyms for turn back Other synonyms for the word turn back
- about-face
- answer back
- arrive home
- back
- back up
- backfire
- backpedal
- backslide
- backtrack
- be affected
- be overcome
- be overtaken
- be remembered
- be repeated
- boomerang
- bounce back
- capsize
- change
- circle
- come again
- come and go
- come back
- crop up again
- decline
- dodge
- double
- double back
- echo
- evaginate
- evert
- exchange
- fade
- fail
- fall
- fall away
- fall off
- fall off the wagon
- feel
- flip-flop
- function
- get back at
- give a snappy comeback
- give back
- go back
- go backwards
- hark back
- haunt thoughts
- have a funny feeling
- have vibes
- interchange
- inverse
- invert
- iterate
- lapse
- loop
- lose ground
- move backwards
- operate
- overturn
- perform
- persist
- proceed
- react
- reappear
- rearrange
- rebound
- recede
- recidivate
- reciprocate
- recoil
- recrudesce
- recur
- regress
- reiterate
- relapse
- repeat
- reply
- resume
- retrace one's steps
- retreat
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- return to mind
- reverse
- reverse path
- revert
- revisit
- roll back
- run through one's mind
- shift
- sicken
- sink
- slide back
- slip back
- suffer
- switch
- take
- take up where left off
- talk back
- throw back
- transfer
- transplace
- transpose
- turn
- turn around
- turn back
- turn over
- upend
- upset
- work
- worsen
Définition of turn back
Origin :- late Old English turnian "to rotate, revolve," in part also from Old French torner "to turn," both from Latin tornare "turn on a lathe," from tornus "lathe," from Greek tornos "lathe, tool for drawing circles," from PIE root *tere- "to rub, rub by turning, turn, twist" (see throw (v.)). Expression to turn (something) into (something else) probably retains the classical sense of "to shape on a lathe" (attested in English from c.1300). Related: Turned; turning.
- To turn up "arrive" is recorded from 1755. Turn-off "something that dampens one's spirits" recorded by 1971 (said to have been in use since 1968); to turn (someone) on "excite, stimulate, arouse" is recorded from 1903. Someone should revive turn-sick "dizzy," which is attested from mid-15c. To turn (something) loose "set free" is recorded from 1590s. Turn down (v.) "reject" first recorded 1891, American English. Turn in "go to bed" is attested from 1690s, originally nautical. To turn the stomach "nauseate" is recorded from 1620s. To turn up one's nose as an expression of contempt is attested from 1779. Turning point is attested by 1836 in a figurative sense; literal sense from 1856.
- As in react : verb respond; conduct oneself
- As in recur : verb happen again; repeat in one's mind
- As in regress : verb return to earlier way of doing things
- As in relapse : verb deteriorate, weaken
- As in reverse : verb turn upside down or backwards
- As in revert : verb return to an earlier, less-developed condition
- As in backpedal : verb retrace one's step
- As in backtrack : verb retrace one's step
- As in reoccur : verb recur
- As in double back : verb retrace one's steps
- As in get back : verb return
- Therefore I was obliged to turn back, as our horses were done up.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- We must now turn back a little, and follow the movements of Alcidas.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- First of all, it was evident that he must turn back if he was to save his eyesight.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- No longer was he determined that she must turn back at this point.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- He could turn back; he must turn back; and as a corollary the Leopard Woman must turn back with him!
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- Eurylochus and a few of the others were inclined to turn back.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Well, then, I will turn back with you; but the punch will all be gone, mark my words.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- I was just about to turn back, in order not to disturb her meditations, when she glanced at me.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- You don't expect they will turn back and give us trouble, do you, Rob?
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields » by Lieut. Howard Payson
- Thus led, my broodings leave the future, and turn back on the past.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
Antonyms for turn back
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