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DATE BACK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belong to an earlier time

Example:

This story dates back 200 years

Synonyms:

date back; date from; go back

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "date back" is one way to...):

initiate; originate; start (bring into being)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date back"):

ascend (go back in order of genealogical succession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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