move back

Verb

Meaning

pull back or move away or backward

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

retreat withdraw retire recede pull back draw back pull away ret back return turn fall travel reverse depart
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Antonyms

approach advance close in get better power through be close
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Hypernyms

move travel go locomote

Hyponyms

retreat retrograde back down back up fall back back off

Examples

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. Maurice Sendak

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. Mason Cooley

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world. Daniel Gilbert

It was very important for me to move back to Kingsville because my work is all about the land and the terrain and the cactus and the myths and legends and people. Especially the people, the Mexican community. Santa Barraza

We invite them here to learn basic skills and we have even paid for them to do courses at TPAF because that's what they said they wanted to do. But after that they just move back on the streets and amongst them are some who are renting out their houses. Asenaca Caucau

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way. Jarvis Cocker

Close letter words and terms

move away move away from move awkwardly move back and forth move backward move backwards