intransitive. To draw back or away; to move backwards. Also figurative.

intransitive. To go back or backwards; to recede, retire, return. Also figurative. Now rare.

To move back, recede, retreat backward.

intransitive. Astronomy. Of the moon's nodes (node, n. 4a), an orbital point, etc.: to exhibit retrograde motion. Cf. retrograde, v. 3a.

intransitive. To move back or away. Also figurative and transitive (reflexive).

intransitive. To give way, draw back, yield ground in a combat; to draw back or turn aside from a course of action, a duty or enterprise. In later…

intransitive. Originally: †to move backwards, take a backward course; to recede, withdraw (obsolete). In later use: (Military) to draw back from a…

intransitive. To run or move back, recede (from). Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To go back; to retreat; to recede.

With back. intransitive. To regress; to go back in time. Obsolete.

intransitive. To move or draw back. spec. = back, v. 17.

intransitive. To go back; spec. = regress, v. 1a. Cf. regrade, v.2

intransitive. To go back; to regress. Cf. regrede, v.

intransitive. To go back, move backwards. Cf. regress, v. 1b.