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Verb: go back
  1. Belong to an earlier time
    "This story goes back 200 years";
    - date back, date from
     
  2. Return in thought or speech to something
    - recur
     
  3. Regain a former condition after a financial loss
    "We expect the stocks to go back to $2.90";
    - recover, recuperate

Derived forms: gone back, going back, went back, goes back

Type of: come back, father, hark back, initiate, originate, recall, regress, retrovert, return, revert, start, turn back