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Verb: take back  teyk bak
  1. Bring back to the point of departure
    - return, bring back
     
  2. Regain possession of something
    - 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
    "He took back his words";
    - swallow, unsay, withdraw
     
  6. Cause someone to remember the past

Derived forms: taken back, takes back, took back, taking back

See also: take

Type of: bring, convey, disown, displace, move, relate, remind, renounce, repudiate, take