come back
Verb
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Verb
come back
- (intransitive) To return to a place.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.
- Suddenly it all came back to him, the tea, the petite madeleines, his mother.
- (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.
- Many people counted him out, but he came back better than ever.
- Paisley is coming back this year.
- (intransitive) To retort.
- He came back with one of his snide remarks.
- French: revenir
- German: zurückkommen, zurückkehren
- Italian: tornare
- Portuguese: voltar
- Russian: (imperfective) возвраща́ться
- Spanish: volver, regresar
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