intransitive. To turn; esp. to turn away or aside, depart; to turn back, return. Obsolete. Cf. again-chare, v.
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| 释义 | society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > turn back or retrace one's steps (12) charec1000 intransitive. To turn; esp. to turn away or aside, depart; to turn back, return. Obsolete. Cf. again-chare, v. i-cherrec1000 intransitive. To turn, return. again-wendOE intransitive to turn back, return. again-turna1375 intransitive. To turn back, return. to turn backc1425 intransitive. To reverse one's position so as to face or go in the opposite direction; to turn and go back. Also figurative. Cf. main senses 18a… reflect1608 intransitive. Of things other than light: to return, rebound; to bounce back, esp. after contact with a hard surface. Also figurative. Now rare. redambulate1623 intransitive. To walk back. to tread back one's steps1777 †to tread a person's steps (figurative), to walk in the steps of, follow the example of (obsolete); to tread back one's steps (figurative), to… back track1802 A track lying or leading towards the rear; esp. in to take the back track, to return or retreat; also figurative. to try back1816 intransitive. to try back: to go back (literal or figurative) so as to cover ground afresh where something has previously been missed; to ‘hark back’. back-track1904 intransitive. To return; to retrace one's steps. Also figurative, to go back on, withdraw. back-trail1907 transitive and intransitive. |
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