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Princeton's WordNet

  1. backtrack, turn back, double backverb

    retrace one's course

    "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"

  2. revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn backverb

    go back to a previous state

    "We reverted to the old rules"

  3. chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run offverb

    force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

    "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

  4. check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold backverb

    hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

    "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"

  5. turn back, invert, reverseverb

    turn inside out or upside down

Wiktionary

  1. turn backverb

    To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.

  2. turn backverb

    To return to a previous state of being.

  3. turn backverb

    To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.

  4. turn backverb

    To adjust to a previous setting.

  5. turn backverb

    To fold something back; to fold down

ChatGPT

  1. turn back

    "Turn back" is a phrase that generally implies to reverse one's direction, stop moving forward, and go back towards where they started from. It can be literally applied to physical movement or metaphorically to changing decisions, reverting to previous conditions, or ceasing to continue in a certain behavior or action.

Wikidata

  1. Turn Back

    Turn Back is an EP released by The Pillows on June 23, 2004. It contains re-recordings of song originally published between 1990 and 1996 and was part of the band's 15th anniversary releases. The cover art is based on the folktale by the Brothers Grimm Town Musicians of Bremen

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn back in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of turn back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of turn back in a Sentence

  1. Farid Benyettou:

    As the date got closer, more and more I wanted to turn back time. But if I chickened out, I risked being seen as a coward.

  2. Eric Adams:

    We're not going to recover as a city if we turn back time and see an increase in violence.

  3. Signs:

    Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

  4. Joe Zuniga:

    She makes no excuses for what she did, she has always owned up to it. She says, ‘If I could turn back time, I never would do that.’She understands that she didn’t just negatively affect her life, but she hurt many other people, and she is still very sorry for it.

  5. County Mayor Carlos Gimenez:

    After all the success we have had tamping down the COVID-19 curve, we cannot turn back and overload our hospitals, putting our doctors and nurses at greater risk with more emergency room cases, everyone must do their part and follow the rules.

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