| Definitions | | turn back |
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verb (inf=to turn back, turns back, turning back, turned back)
- to reverse one's direction and retrace one's steps.
- Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.
- to backtrack
- He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways
- Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
- (transitive)to fold something back; to fold down
- When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
- (transitive)to turn a dial anticlockwise or adjust a clock or other meter to an earlier time or reading.
- In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
- (transitive) to refuse to allow someone to pass a border or enter a place.
- The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
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