Synonym: dawdle, drop off, fall behind, lag, lapse, lose, recede, recidivate, recur, regress, relapse, resort, retire, retrogress. Similar words: fallback, fall back on, call back, roll back, back to back, back-to-back, backpack, fall behind. Meaning: v. 1. fall backwards and down 2. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. 3. move back and away from 4. retreat 5. have recourse to 6. go back to bad behavior.
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(31) When the chanting stops they fall back in a faint.
(32) No longer could he fall back on the comforting routines of the novitiate to give structure to his life.
(33) Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth.
(34) He goes away, rejecting the power he has assumed, hoping the creation will fall back into decay.
(35) Honor and I fall back into the pillows of our banquette.
(36) The fall back to the beast and beyond even that-to mere inanimate existence-is complete.
(37) It does not deter firms from supplying on credit, and there is always insurance cover to fall back on.
(38) Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?
(39) It would have been very easy for the United States to fall back into its historic isolationism.
(40) With Ares gone, however, the Trojans were forced to fall back.
(41) He had no time to work out meanings, fall back on old attitudes and positions.
(42) He bunched it and pulled at it, finally he pleated it between his knuckles, before letting it fall back.
(43) Even now I find it harder to conjure up memories of Kennedy, harder to fall back under that inexplicable spell.
(44) Soon the Federals began to fall back toward their original position on Cemetery Ridge.
(45) I don't like to fall back on what comes automatically.
(46) She was an alien in the country with no dole to fall back on[sentencedict.com], didn't have much money.
(47) And their continued existence, damn them, means this writer can no longer fall back on one of his favourite lines.
(48) Recommend we fall back and regroup.
(49) The British forces had to fall back quickly.
(50) They forced the enemy to fall back.
(51) Furthermore , if the starting time of operation mechanism is late, the contact will fall back seriously.
(52) She was under the apprehension that she would fall back in to poverty.
(53) Previous to always think straight side will fall back side is.
(54) Schrier received permission to fall back to his jump-off position so as to better protect the MSR.
(55) At sight of him the people fall back in terror.
(56) When we're caught off-guard, we're more likely to fall back into old,[sentencedict.com] ineffective habits like the combat mentality.
(57) Then Kuhn fall back on linguistic analysis and advise a taxonomic interpretation of his controversial notion of incommensurability. That is called Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn".
(58) As the spin stopped, the oceans would all fall back toward the poles, drowning everything north of Chicago and south of Buenos Aires and creating two massive circumpolar oceans.
(59) President Polk's alternative to the Wilmot Proviso was to fall back on the Missouri Compromise, an 1820 law that permitted Missouri to be admitted as a slave state with Maine as a free state.
(60) Skull Squadron, deactivate Shadow Devices and fall back to Space Station Liberty.
More similar words: fallback, fall back on, call back, roll back, back to back, back-to-back, backpack, fall behind, back, aback, back off, back out, back up, go back, backup, back on, outback, back of, get back, cut back, backwash, back away, backbone, come back, hold back, backlog, back down, pay back, win back, set back.