come back
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
(RETURN)
A2 to return to a place:
I'll come back and pick you up in half an hour.
We've just come back from Amsterdam.
More examples
- When is Tom coming back from Ireland?
- I have to do a bit of shopping, but I'll come back later.
- I thought my rash had gone, but it seems to have come back.
- I came back to my home town to see if I could find out more about my parents.
- A lot of young people leave the town and never come back.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Returning to a place
- backtrack
- call
- call back
- come
- double
- double back
- get back
- go
- go back
- not darken sb's door idiom
- re-enter
- regain
- rejoin
- resume
- retrace
- retrace your steps idiom
- return
- snap
- turn
- turn (sb) back
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(FASHION)
If a style or a fashion comes back, it becomes popular again after being unpopular for a period of time:
Padded shoulders are coming back, apparently.
Long hair on men seems to be coming back into fashion.
More examples
- It looks like beehive hairdos are coming back!
- All those 20s fashions are coming back.
- I hope tank tops never come back into fashion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Occurring and happening
- afoot
- assail
- asynchronous
- attendant
- be at work idiom
- become
- come
- come up
- concur
- event
- go ahead
- go down
- go together
- go with sth
- hand
- happen
- intervene
- materialize
- occur
- underway
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