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Take back   /teɪk bæk/   Listen
Take back

verb
1.
Bring back to the point of departure.  Synonyms: bring back, return.
2.
Regain possession of something.  Synonym: repossess.
3.
Resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband.
4.
Move text to the previous line; in printing.
5.
Take back what one has said.  Synonyms: swallow, unsay, withdraw.
6.
Cause someone to remember the past.





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"Take back" Quotes from Famous Books



... back, take back your viands; for a thousand drachmae I would not give a drop of peace; but who ...
— The Acharnians • Aristophanes
... face every influence, and will act according to the best interests of the fatherland. We must insist on the correction of the mistakes made by the Treaty of Bucharest. We are resolved, in case this should prove necessary, to take back by force of arms the territories that belong to us and that have been snatched from us. The Bulgarian Army is ready and will do its duty up to the end when the interests ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... good. They were certainly trespassing, but they considered that their errand justified the deed. Lenox had brought his hand camera, and hoped to get a snap-shot of the old place to take back to America to show his father. He had ascertained that no picture post cards of it were obtainable in the village. They could see the twisted chimneys rising over the top of a thick grove of trees and shrubs, so they turned their steps in that direction. Over ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... did that old poem of Sir Philip Sidney's say?—"continual comfort in a face"—that just suited her. And he needed comfort. Why not go and call? He remembered that Ellen had asked him to drop in sometimes and there was Rosemary's book to take back—he ought to take it back before he forgot. He had an uneasy suspicion that there were a great many books in his library which he had borrowed at sundry times and in divers places and had forgotten to take back. ...
— Rainbow Valley • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... another. . . . I was sitting at home, writing something. All at once the door opened and she walked in . . . drunk. 'Take back your cursed money,' she said, and flung a roll of notes in my face. . . . So she could not keep it up. I picked up the notes and counted them. It was five hundred short of the ten thousand, so she had only managed ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov


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