Synonyms for take back
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : teyk |
| Phonetic Transcription : teɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for take back Other synonyms for the word take back
Définition of take back
Origin :- 1650s, "that which is taken in payment," from take (v.). Sense of "money taken in" by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie-making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of "money acquired by theft" is from 1888. The verb sense of "to cheat, defraud" is from 1920. On the take "amenable to bribery" is from 1930.
- verb retract
- You wait a little, and hear Uncle Peter take back what he's said about me.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I know you say so, and I think very likely you will be glad to take back what you have said.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- But when I found out who he was I tried to take back my denunciation, and they wouldn't let me.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- They want us to take back the machinist that was dismissed the other day for drunkenness.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- And Scipio found the letter thrust out for him to take back.
- Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Take back your note; you shall give it to me when I hand you the money.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- That was in the officer's thought when he refused to take back his Burmese servant.
- Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
- Here he cut a large quantity of brazil wood to take back to Spain.
- Extract from : « Discoverers and Explorers » by Edward R. Shaw
- I think I looked so taken aback by that, that she had it on her lips to take back the request.
- Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed
Antonyms for take back
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