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Come back   /kəm bæk/   Listen
Come back

verb
1.
Be restored.  Synonym: return.
2.
Go back to something earlier.  Synonyms: hark back, recall, return.
3.
Even the score, in sports.
4.
Answer back.  Synonyms: rejoin, repay, retort, return, riposte.






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"Come back" Quotes from Famous Books



... it that means we might pretend to clear out, and come back under cover of the night, to make another camp; eh, Paul?" Jack ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren

... where it is. May I help her to find it?" Then Jeremy's head would disappear. There would follow giggles, whispers, again giggles; then from the cupboard a book tumbles, then another, then another. Then Miss Jones would say: "Now, Jeremy, come back to the table. You've had quite enough time—" interrupted by a perfect ...
— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole

... flourish it about and frighten the inmates and often cruelly beat them. He would order the women to pull up their clothes, in Alabama style, as he called it, and then whip them for not complying. He would then come back roaring and shouting to the house, and tell me what he had done; if I did not laugh with him, he would get angry and demand what the matter was. Oh! how often I have laughed, at such times, when my heart ached within me; and how often, when ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... in a moment, and had soon reached the men. He forgot to come back. The little party watched him talk to the men for a few moments, and then becoming busy ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various

... room directly forward: Jack comes as fast after as he can for the right and left looking-glass, in which he had but just approved himself by a nod at each, and marched on. He will meditate within for half an hour, till he thinks he is not careless enough in his air, and come back to the mirror to recollect ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken


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