go back
Verb
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Verb
go back
- (intransitive) To return to a place after having been there at a previous time.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620 ↗:
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
- (intransitive, of two or more persons) To have known each other for a certain length of time.
- Bill and I go back to college.
- (intransitive) To extend into past time.
- Bill and I have a friendship that goes back years.
- (intransitive, used with "on") To abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something.
- You promised me that you'd pay up today, no going back on your word.
- French: rentrer, retourner
- German: zurückgehen, zurückfahren
- Italian: tornare
- Portuguese: voltar
- Russian: возвраща́ться
- Spanish: regresar, volver
- French: revenir
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