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go back
1. v. (intransitive) To return to a place after having been there at a previous time.
2. v. (intransitive, of two or more persons) To have known each other for a certain length of time.
Bill and I go back to college.
3. v. (intransitive, used with "on") To abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something.
You promised me that you'd pay up today, no going back on your word.
Analysis
go
1. v. To move:
2. v.          (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
Why don’t you go with us?   This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.   Chris, where are you going? &nbs
3. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
back
1. adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
Go in the back door of the house.
2. adj. (not comparable) Not current.
I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.
3. adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.

Example Sentences

They go back into the court.  They get up to go back to the living room.  I don't think I want to go back when summer's over.  Then all the sudden you want to go back again.  Let her go back to Russia.

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