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Go back   /goʊ bæk/   Listen
Go back

verb
1.
Belong to an earlier time.  Synonyms: date back, date from.
2.
Return in thought or speech to something.  Synonym: recur.
3.
Regain a former condition after a financial loss.  Synonyms: recover, recuperate.  "The company managed to recuperate"



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"Go back" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonder at his own conduct. He was not in the habit of interfering in other people's business, and never mixed with drunken affairs. But this surely was different. No man would have refused that appeal for help. Yes; he was sure she had pleaded with her eyes. Perhaps he ought to go back and receive her thanks, but he resisted that impulse. He walked to the extreme rear of the boat and stood looking at the broad white path which the ship was making in the green sea. He stood gazing for some time, then turned, and there ...
— Story of Chester Lawrence • Nephi Anderson

... an angry exit, and I said to Fred, "I wish you would stroll about and spy out the proceedings of the enemy's camp. He may telegraph to Washington, and if there's any chance of the Postmaster-General revoking his order I must go back to Flagstaff ...
— The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford

... some way to keep her a little longer. This hour must not be gone yet. What story could he tell her? If he did not begin, in a moment she would get up from that comfortable niche in the rock, and say that it was time to go back to her patients, and then it would ...
— The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 - Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 • Various

... the men, on my knees, for the love of God, to remember their duty. But they only told me to go back to my berth, and would not allow me to have any communication with Hudson. After the captain was put in the boat, the carpenter was set at liberty; but he refused to remain in the ship unless they forced ...
— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott

... people are afraid of them," said Norman, "I am not afraid of tigers, and when I go back to India I intend ...
— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston


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