Synonym: arrest, backtrack, chase away, check, contain, dispel, double back, drive away, drive off, drive out, hold back, invert, regress, retrovert, return, reverse, revert, run off, stop. Similar words: back, turn, turn on, back up, back of, back on, turn out, turn to. Meaning: v. 1. retrace one's course 2. go back to a previous state 3. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings 4. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 5. turn inside out or upside down.
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1 Those who turn back never reach the summit.
2 We'd better turn back; it's getting dark.
3 We can't turn back now.
4 Turn back to the previous page.
5 Nobody can turn back the wheel of history.
6 We're lost - we'll have to turn back.
7 They were very nearly forced to turn back.
8 It's getting late - maybe we should turn back.
9 It was too late to turn back.
10 Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
11 We took the wrong road and had to turn back.
12 Turn back to the summaries at the end of section 1.5.
13 Soldiers barred the road so we had to turn back.
14 We shall have to turn back if there's the slightest hint of fog.
15 We should turn back now. It's getting dark and I don't like the look of those rain clouds.
16 Police attempted to turn back protesters marching towards the offices of President Ershad.
17 According to the map we missed our turn back there.
18 His group was forced to turn back and take an alternate route.
19 Don't turn back the corners of the pages to mark your place.
20 No-one can turn back the clock.
21 He didn't turn back to face her.
22 I turn back to my class,(www.Sentencedict.com) bowing deeply.
23 It's getting late - I think we should turn back before it gets dark.
24 I was secretly relieved when Ed said it was time to turn back.
25 The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
26 The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
27 The weather became so bad that they had to turn back.
28 The climbers were half way up the mountain when two of them conked out and had to turn back.
29 Even the most stouthearted of hikers would have had to turn back in this weather.
30 Only if somebody can come up with a way to turn back the clock.
More similar words: back, turn, turn on, back up, back of, back on, turn out, turn to, turn off, turn up, in turn, return, turn in, hold back, set back, pay back, cut back, call back, back away, turn down, turn away, go back on, give back, look back, backyard, draw back, keep back, feedback, go back to, turn over.