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Definition of Go back
1. Verb. Belong to an earlier time. "This story dates back 200 years"
Generic synonyms: Initiate, Originate, Start
Specialized synonyms: Ascend
2. Verb. Return in thought or speech to something.
3. Verb. Regain a former condition after a financial loss. "The company managed to recuperate"
Generic synonyms: Regress, Retrovert, Return, Revert, Turn Back
Specialized synonyms: Rally, Rebound
Derivative terms: Recovery
Definition of Go back
1. Verb. (intransitive) To return to a place after having been there at a previous time. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive of two or more persons) To have known each other for a certain length of time. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive used with "on") To abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Back
Literary usage of Go back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Then the Maréchale, who was looking this way and that, said quietly: "Let us go
back together! I have a cab waiting below." He pretended not to hear. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"go back on—contd. 1876 A good many patrons went back on the paper this ...
1876 [He said] that lawyers would never go back on each other. back out, or, ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"I SHALL go back I shall go back again to the bleak shore And build a little shanty
on the sand In such a way that the extremest band Of brittle seaweed will ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Whittle told Hartwell that it was an impossibility to let the money go back tc
Carter, and that any deficiency must be paid in before 10 o'clock the next ..."
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