turn back
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(verb) 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 SE Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement" |
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Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, stop |
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Related Words: cut down, cut out, defend |
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(verb) retrace one's course |
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Synonyms: backtrack, double back |
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Related Words: come back, get back, go back, return |
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(verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars'; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts" |
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Synonyms: chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off |
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Related Words: banish, displace, fire, frighten, move, shoo, shoo away, shoo off |
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(verb) go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" |
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Synonyms: regress, return, revert |
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Related Words: change by reversal, go back, recover, reverse, turn |
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