Vi fant 12 definisjoner av turn back på engelsk.
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| turn back - turn inside out or upside down | ||
| invert, reverse | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| turn back - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" | ||
| revert, return, retrovert, regress | ||
| change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" | ||
| recidivate, relapse, retrogress, regress, fall back, lapse go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" | ||
| resile return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed; "The rubber tubes resile" | ||
| go back, recuperate, recover get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating" | ||
| turn back - 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" | ||
| chase away, drive out, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off | ||
| drive out, rout out, rouse, force out force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
| frighten cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" | ||
| fire bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" | ||
| clear the air dispel differences or negative emotions; "The group called a meeting to finally clear the air" | ||
| banish drive away; "banish bad thoughts"; "banish gloom" | ||
| shoo, shoo away, shoo off drive away by crying `shoo!' | ||
| turn back - 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" | ||
| check, arrest, stop, contain, hold back | ||
| defend argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike" | ||
| cut down, cut out intercept (a player) | ||
| turn back - retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back" | ||
| backtrack, double back | ||
| return submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body" | ||
