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GO BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regain a former condition after a financial loss
Example:
The company managed to recuperate
Synonyms:
go back; recover; recuperate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "go back" is one way to...):
regress; retrovert; return; revert; turn back (go back to a previous state)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go back"):
rally; rebound (return to a former condition)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Return in thought or speech to something
Synonyms:
go back; recur
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "go back" is one way to...):
come back; hark back; recall; return (go back to something earlier)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belong to an earlier time
Example:
This story dates back 200 years
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "go back" is one way to...):
initiate; originate; start (bring into being)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go back"):
ascend (go back in order of genealogical succession)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
The streets that we have only seen as children always do, I believe, when we go back to them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It would ill become my gracious master, sire, to go back from promise given.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It seemed as if, could I but go back to the idea which had last entered my mind as I stood at the window, some inventive suggestion would rise for my relief.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Well, we must just go back and fetch 'em. I couldn't bring 'em with me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Let us go back to the cabinet.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We will go back to the note which was handed in to Garcia upon the evening of his death.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Charles, you had much better go back and change the box for Tuesday.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As soon as I am cooler I shall go back again.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When do you go back again?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have a great mind to go back into Norfolk directly, and put everything at once on such a footing as cannot be afterwards swerved from.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
