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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(61) Otherwise we should rather fall back and carefully bide our time.
(62) I still have the heart finesse to fall back on.
(63) Otherwise we would rather fall back and bide our time.
(64) Our attack was so vigorous that the enemy had to fall back.
(65) All fighters disengage Shadow Device and fall back to Space Station Liberty.
(66) He tries to fall back on the other pleasure of life.
(67) The enemy had to fall back on their final line of defence.
(68) However, he had another son -- the youngest one -- to fall back on.
(69) Presumably if all life on Earth were extinguished, the Earth's atmosphere would fall back to a persistent equilibrium, and become as boringly predictable as Mars and Venus.
(70) The Russian army and population fall back, avoiding a battle, to Smolensk, and from Smolensk to Borodino.
(71) The troops were ordered to fall back on the second line of defence.
(72) The loans also give them recurring income to fall back on when market conditions worsen.
(73) Shenton's critics, it should be pointed out, can fall back on spherical trigonometry and astronomical -observations that date right back to Aristotle in 330BC.
(74) When all else fails, there is still civic pride to fall back on.
(75) Doctors sometimes fall back on modern medicines in case of emergency.
(76) The attack was so strong that we were required to fall back.
(77) After a brief rally share fall back to a new low.
(78) The Invid have repulsed our main attack. Recommend we fall back and regroup.
(79) In panic mode, we fall back into our old habits.
(80) Skills: 4 Mobile continuous fall back after a relatively strong bone.
(81) The soldiers were ordered to fall back on the final line of defence.
(82) All those benedictions will fall back before they reach heaven,[http://sentencedict.com/fall back.html] and only the malediction will ascend to God.
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.