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Verb go back has 4 senses
- return, go back, get back, come back - come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:
The children go back to the playground
- go back, date back, date from - belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years"
--2 is one way to originate, initiate, start
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- recur, go back - return in thought or speech to something
--3 is one way to hark back, return, come back, recall
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- recover, go back, recuperate - regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"
--4 is one way to revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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