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Come Back| Verb | 1. | come back - come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activitygo, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" revisit - visit again; "We revisited Rome after 25 years" retrace, trace - to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path" cut back, flash back - return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story" home - return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons" return - return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure" boomerang - return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang bounce - come back after being refused; "the check bounced" | | | 2. | come back - be restored; "Her old vigor returned"re-emerge, reappear - appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" | | | 3. | come back - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"denote, refer - have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " | | | 4. | come back - even the score, in sportscatch up - reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework" | | | 5. | come back - answer backanswer, reply, respond - reply or respond to; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" | |
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