"go back" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-go back.wav Forms: goes back [present, singular, third-person], going back [participle, present], went back [past], gone back [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> back}} go back (third-person singular simple present goes back, present participle going back, simple past went back, past participle gone back)
  1. (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. Tags: intransitive Derived forms: go back on, go back to, go back to where you came from Related terms: come back, turn back Translations (to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something): revenir (French), rinoyî (Walloon), rimagnî (english: given word) (Walloon), rivni (Walloon) Translations (to extend into past time): брать нача́ло (bratʹ načálo) [imperfective] (Russian), простира́ться (prostirátʹsja) (alt: назад во времени) [imperfective] (Russian), дати́роваться (datírovatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian) Translations (to have known each other): быть знако́мыми (bytʹ znakómymi) [imperfective] (Russian), s' awè cnoxhou (Walloon) Translations (to return to a place): ပြန် (pran) (Burmese), ڕۆیشتنەوە (royiştnewe) (Central Kurdish), ᎢᎦᎷᎦ (igaluga) (Cherokee), ᎢᎡᎦ (iega) (Cherokee), 回去 (huíqu) (english: go back) (Chinese Mandarin), 返回 (fǎnhuí) (Chinese Mandarin), teruggaan (Dutch), reveturi (Esperanto), reiri (Esperanto), palata (Finnish), mennä takaisin (Finnish), rentrer (French), retourner (French), tornâ (Friulian), volver (Galician), voltar (Galician), retornar (Galician), regresar (Galician), zurückgehen (German), zurückfahren (German), visszamegy (Hungarian), regresar (Ido), retroirar (Ido), rivenar (Ido), tornare (Italian), 戻る (modoru) (alt: もどる) (Japanese), ត្រឡប់ (trɑlɑp) (Khmer), 돌아가다 (doragada) (Korean), tornar atras (Ladino), ກັບໄປ (kap pai) (Lao), ເມືອ (mư̄a) (Lao), redeō (Latin), kembali (Malay), rentrer (Norman), دونمك (dönmek) (Ottoman Turkish), voltar (Portuguese), întoarce (Romanian), возвраща́ться (vozvraščátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), возврати́ться (vozvratítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), верну́ться (vernútʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), regresar (Spanish), volver (Spanish), kurejea (Swahili), กลับไป (glàp bpai) (Thai), 𐎘𐎁 (ṯb) (Ugaritic), повертатися (povertatysja) (Ukrainian), trở lại (Vietnamese), raler (Walloon)
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Inflected forms

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          "word": "go back on"
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          "text": "Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.",
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          "ref": "1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.",
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          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:",
          "text": "Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest.\nWrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back.",
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        "To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time."
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          "return",
          "return"
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          "previous",
          "previous"
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        "(intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time."
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          "word": "come back"
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        {
          "word": "turn back"
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          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "pran",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ပြန်"
        },
        {
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "igaluga",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ᎢᎦᎷᎦ"
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        {
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "iega",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ᎢᎡᎦ"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "go back",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "huíqu",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "回去"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fǎnhuí",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "返回"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "teruggaan"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "reveturi"
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        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "reiri"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "palata"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "mennä takaisin"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "rentrer"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "retourner"
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        {
          "code": "fur",
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "tornâ"
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        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "volver"
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        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "voltar"
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        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "retornar"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "regresar"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "zurückgehen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "zurückfahren"
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "visszamegy"
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        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "regresar"
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        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "retroirar"
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        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "rivenar"
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        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "tornare"
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        {
          "alt": "もどる",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "modoru",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "戻る"
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        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "trɑlɑp",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ត្រឡប់"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "doragada",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "돌아가다"
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          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "royiştnewe",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ڕۆیشتنەوە"
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        {
          "code": "lad",
          "lang": "Ladino",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "tornar atras"
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          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "kap pai",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ກັບໄປ"
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          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "mư̄a",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "ເມືອ"
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        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "redeō"
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        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "kembali"
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          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "rentrer"
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        {
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "dönmek",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "دونمك"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "voltar"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "întoarce"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vozvraščátʹsja",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "возвраща́ться"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vozvratítʹsja",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "возврати́ться"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vernútʹsja",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "верну́ться"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "regresar"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "volver"
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        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "kurejea"
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        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "glàp bpai",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "กลับไป"
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        {
          "code": "uga",
          "lang": "Ugaritic",
          "roman": "ṯb",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "𐎘𐎁"
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        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "povertatysja",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "повертатися"
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        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "trở lại"
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        {
          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to return to a place",
          "word": "raler"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bytʹ znakómymi",
          "sense": "to have known each other",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "быть знако́мыми"
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          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to have known each other",
          "word": "s' awè cnoxhou"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bratʹ načálo",
          "sense": "to extend into past time",
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          "word": "брать нача́ло"
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        {
          "alt": "назад во времени",
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          "roman": "prostirátʹsja",
          "sense": "to extend into past time",
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          "word": "простира́ться"
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          "roman": "datírovatʹsja",
          "sense": "to extend into past time",
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          "word": "дати́роваться"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
          "word": "revenir"
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          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
          "word": "rinoyî"
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          "code": "wa",
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          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
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          "code": "wa",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
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    {
      "word": "go back to where you came from"
    }
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "come back"
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      "word": "turn back"
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Friulian translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Khmer translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Ladino translations",
        "Terms with Lao translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norman translations",
        "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Ugaritic translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
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        {
          "text": "We were getting cold so we decided to go back.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:",
          "text": "Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest.\nWrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time."
      ],
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          "return",
          "return"
        ],
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          "previous",
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        "(intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time."
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    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "pran",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ပြန်"
    },
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      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "igaluga",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ᎢᎦᎷᎦ"
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      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "iega",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ᎢᎡᎦ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "go back",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huíqu",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "回去"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǎnhuí",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "返回"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "teruggaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "reveturi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "reiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "palata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "mennä takaisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "rentrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "retourner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "tornâ"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "volver"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "voltar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "retornar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "regresar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "zurückgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "zurückfahren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "visszamegy"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "regresar"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "retroirar"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "rivenar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "tornare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "もどる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "modoru",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "戻る"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "trɑlɑp",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ត្រឡប់"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "doragada",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "돌아가다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "royiştnewe",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ڕۆیشتنەوە"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "tornar atras"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "kap pai",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ກັບໄປ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "mư̄a",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "ເມືອ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "redeō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "kembali"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "rentrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "dönmek",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "دونمك"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "voltar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "întoarce"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozvraščátʹsja",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "возвраща́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozvratítʹsja",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "возврати́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vernútʹsja",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "верну́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "regresar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "volver"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "kurejea"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "glàp bpai",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "กลับไป"
    },
    {
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "ṯb",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "𐎘𐎁"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "povertatysja",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "повертатися"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "trở lại"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to return to a place",
      "word": "raler"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bytʹ znakómymi",
      "sense": "to have known each other",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "быть знако́мыми"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to have known each other",
      "word": "s' awè cnoxhou"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bratʹ načálo",
      "sense": "to extend into past time",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "брать нача́ло"
    },
    {
      "alt": "назад во времени",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prostirátʹsja",
      "sense": "to extend into past time",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "простира́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "datírovatʹsja",
      "sense": "to extend into past time",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "дати́роваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
      "word": "revenir"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
      "word": "rinoyî"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "english": "given word",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
      "word": "rimagnî"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something",
      "word": "rivni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go back"
}

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