Lexic.us

Definition of Come back

1. Verb. Be restored. "Her old vigor returned"

2. Verb. Go back to something earlier. "This harks back to a previous remark of his"

3. Verb. Even the score, in sports.

4. Verb. Answer back. "They come back that there was a traffic accident "

Definition of Come back

1. Verb. (intransitive) To return to a place. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Come Back

come-to-Jesus come a cropper come a long way come about come across come after come again come alive come along come and go

come apart come around come away come back (current term) come before come between come by come clean come close come down

come down on come down the pike come down to come down to us come down with come for come forth come forward

Literary usage of Come back

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"come back COME back, come back! behold with straining mast And swelling sail, ... come back, come back! across the flying foam We hear faint far-off voices ..."

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"He thought that they must be swallows who had come back from the south. Then he was to go away ? for they were birds ever going and coming, building ever an ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"come back, come back. come back, come back, across the flying foam, We hear faint far-off voices call us home, come back, ye seem to say; ye seek in vain ..."

4. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens (1868)
"I charge you, come back. He carries other lives besides his own. ... come back ! " The old man looked at her in wonder, as she writhed and clung about him ..."

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