| 单词 | turn back |
| 释义 | turn back (once / 390 pages) 1v 2v 3v WORD FAMILY turn back: turned back, turning back, turns back USAGE EXAMPLESBut the focus turns back to politics in… Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) They were stopped by the police and turned back. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) Well, this sure was something, no turning back, Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v go back to a previous state Syn|Hypo|Hyper regress, retrovert, return, revert fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress go back to bad behavior resilereturn to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed go back, recover, recuperateregain a former condition after a financial loss rally, reboundreturn to a former condition change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary 2v retrace one's course 2The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back Syn|Hyper backtrack, double back return go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before 1v force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers Syn|Hypo|Hyper chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off drive out, force out, rouse, rout out force or drive out frighten drive out by frightening firedrive out or away by or as if by fire clear the airdispel differences or negative emotions banishdrive away shoo, shoo away, shoo offdrive away by crying `shoo!' displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 2v hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 3Turn back the tide of communism Syn|Hypo|Hyper arrest, check, contain, hold back, stop cut down, cut out intercept (a player) defend be on the defensive; act against an attack v turn inside out or upside down Syn|Hyper invert, reverse alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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