单词 | to take back |
释义 | > as lemmasto take back to take back 1. transitive. a. To retake possession of, to reclaim. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > take [verb (transitive)] > take again or back > take back resume1404 to take again1474 revoke1526 reclaim1530 to fetch again1535 to take back1568 reducec1595 reassume1609 revicta1656 reassert1704 pull1985 1568 H. Baker Well Spryng Sci. iii. x. f. 133 The first layed in the first of Ianuary 100 li. and the firste of April he hath taken backe againe 20 .li. 1632 W. Struther Looking Glasse for Princes & Popes in Looking Glasse for Princes & People 179 They tooke back their lent feathers, and left her naked. 1678 T. Porter French Conjurer ii. 11 Why did my fate this pleasing Scene begin? Just shew me bliss, then take it back agen! a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 159 Take back, what once was yours. 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 514 Ravenscroft..in silence took back the refunded treasure. 1892 J. R. Joy Grecian Hist. x. 171 Pericles was no tyrant, and the vote of the assembly might at any time take back the power which it had given him. 1926 M. Moore Let. 1 May in Sel. Lett. (1997) 226 When you are ready to take back the Editorship, it will be I who am ‘happy’. 1965 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 25 Aug. 4/3 Few [Republicans] claim they can take back the White House in '68. 1988 D. Allison Trash 147 Maybe they'll let her do some posters for the Take Back the Night Campaign. 2005 M. Odom Lord of Libraries xii. 186 I only saw fit to take back what they had stolen from my father. b. To withdraw or retract (a statement, utterance, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > recant or retract to call againc1390 repealc1390 revokec1390 replyc1425 renounce1446 renayc1450 unsay1483 manswear1502 to let loose1530 to call back1533 recant1534 retract1538 unswear1591 unwish1591 swallow1597 to take back1599 retractate1600 reclaim1615 unspeak1615 recede1655 renege1679 unnotify1738 unpronounce1745 withdraw1793 palinode1892 1599 T. Bilson Effect Certaine Serm. 353 Take back, Sir Refuter, your false and vnsauerie glozes that corrupt the text. 1619 W. Cowper Pathmos 21 Cotterius giues him great praise, but takes it backe againe too suddenly to himselfe. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 70 Take back your oathes and protestations..take 'em..for the use of your next Mistress. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 258 If it be not what you think will please me, said he, dear Girl, take it back again, and reconsider it. 1775 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 86 I had..made some complaints of you, but I will take them all back again. 1857 Peterson's Mag. Sept. 206/2 Pray let me take the promise back, it was only given in a moment of—of confusion. 1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester I. ix. 131 I shall take back my yes if you are troublesome. 1920 G. B. McCutcheon West Wind Drift vi. 76 He might apologize until he was black in the face and still be unable to take back the words he had uttered. 1962 W. Inge Summer Brave i. 5 You take that back. No one calls me that and gets away with it. 2010 T. Rayburn Siren (2011) xv. 224 Good morning to you my dear... Actually, I take that back. It's not good. It's quite the opposite. c. Of a shop, etc.: to accept the return of (goods purchased and subsequently found to be faulty or otherwise unsatisfactory), typically in exchange for a refund or replacement. Also: to accept the return of (goods purchased on a sale-or-return basis and subsequently unsold). ΚΠ 1703 tr. S. von Pufendorf Of Law of Nature & Nations iii. iv. 215/2 Though the Buyer should now find that he has no occasion for his Purchase, yet he cannot force the Seller to refund the Price, and to take back his Horses, unless this Condition was expressly mention'd in the Agreement. 1807 S. Comyn Treat. Law Contracts & Agreements II. iii. i. 78 The plaintiff objected that the horse was..unsound, and tendered back the horse, and demanded his money: the defendant..denied the unsoundness, and refused to take back the horse or return the money. 1877 Pennsylvania State Rep. 83 322 A witness for the plaintiff said, at the time the broker sold these goods, he stated he would take back the defective cans. 1912 Dry Goods Reporter 1 June 51/1 I flatly refused to take back the garment, as it had been worn on the street, and being a conspicuous garment, was no doubt recognized by some of our customers. 1963 Soviet Stud. 14 332 The seller must..replace them, or..take the goods back and refund the buyer his money. 1995 F. Bradley Marketing Managem. xviii. 797 (list) The supplier's readiness to take back defective goods and resupply quickly. 2013 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 29 July 6 The shop won't take back used goods and, because the phone isn't defective, the Consumer Protection Act doesn't compel them to. 2. intransitive. To go back, return (to a place or activity). Now U.S. regional. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] to wend againeOE i-cherrec1000 again-chareOE again-comeOE again-fareOE again-goOE eft-sithec1175 to turn againc1175 returna1325 attournec1386 turnc1390 recovera1393 repair?c1400 recourse?a1425 to go backc1425 resortc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 retour?1505 to make return1534 to turn back1538 retend1543 to come short home1548 regress1552 rejourna1556 revolt1567 revolve1587 repeal1596 recur1612 rewend1616 revene1656 to get back1664 to take back1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. Being quite lost in a wilde and a frightful on and on, I e'en took back again where I was. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. xviii. f. 44 Reward her therewith, and by this means she will learn to give over the Fowl that rakes out, and take back to the River again. 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 40 Concluding that if they headed him and beat him back, that he would take back in his own Track. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae xi. 284 Having..forgot my presence, he took back to his singing. 1918 F. Whitaker Hist. Corporal Fess Whitaker 11 I took back down the road huntin' for my sack of corn. 1990 A. Wilson Piano Lesson in O. L. Guernsey & J. Sweet Theater Yearbk. 1989–90 326 Now she had her piano... She took back to playing it and played on it right up till the day she died. 3. transitive. a. To accept (a partner, spouse, etc.) again after a period of estrangement. ΚΠ 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. xli. 55 When a Man hath divorced his Wife..he cannot, if he would, take her again, till first she hath been Married to another Man, and then he may take her back. 1738 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) VI. 756/2 It might be said he took his wife back only by constraint, and against his will. 1779 Hist. Mod. Europe I. vii. 92 Nicholas..attempted to force the king to take back his first wife. 1835 Legal Observer 28 Mar. 419/1 Having separated.., the husband afterwards refuses to take her back, except upon conditions which he has no right to impose. 1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch III. v. 79 You are my lawful husband, and I calls on you to cease living as you didn't oughter and to take me back. a1961 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden (1987) iii. xv. 135 No. I did it on purpose. Will you take me back? I'm all over the bitchiness. 1983 P. Brown & S. Gaines Love you Make xx. 422 People gossiped constantly about whether or not John would ever take her back. 2013 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 10 Nov. (Herald-Times ed.) f6/3 My brother-in-law cheated on my sister two years ago... My sister took him back and has been trying to be ‘the good wife’. b. To accept (a person) again as an employee or student, typically after a period of suspension or dismissal; to re-employ or re-enrol. ΚΠ 1799 Edinb. Advertiser 10 Dec. 382/3 Holmes was with him for 15 or 16 months as an apprentice... He had no doubt of his honesty, and would take him back if acquitted of this charge. 1844 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 16 318/1 They [sc. the employers] told him, that if they were to take him back, it must be on different terms. 1857 N. W. T. Root School Amusem. 163 The parents..say that their son is as good a boy as others; but I am firm, and refuse to take him back. 1904 in Minutes of Evid. Royal Comm. Trade Disputes (1906) 62/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2826) LVI. 137 The men were told..that if they struck and left their employment they would never be taken back; and they were not taken back. 1975 Sc. Trades Union Congr.: 78th Ann. Rep. 316 It was..essential that schools take back pupils after a short period of suspension. 1985 P. M. Levitt & E. S. Guralnick You can make it Back 177 Engage a first-rate lawyer to write your employer..a thoroughly nonthreatening letter that may nonetheless unnerve him so he'll take you back without a fight. 2013 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 June 3 The..school is refusing to take [the boy] back, fearing his return will put staff and pupils in danger. 4. transitive. To cause (a person) to remember or think of the past; to induce nostalgia in (a person). Frequently with to, specifying what is called to mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > look back on [verb (transitive)] refera1398 to look back1579 review1597 retrospect1664 retrace1686 to take back1796 reverie1961 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. xi. 401 Her conscience..pointed beyond the present moment; it took her back to her imprudence with Sir Sedley Clarendel. 1822 Vindic. Gospels Matt. & Luke 350 The period of his conversion to Christianity..takes us back to the time of Justin. 1889 W. H. Mallock Enchanted Island 251 These churches took me back to the crusaders. 1900 Myrtle 9 June 90/3 The question had taken her back many years. 1964 Newfoundland Q. Summer 12/3 The Journal takes us back to pioneer days in Labrador and Newfoundland. 1995 A. de Botton Kiss & Tell (1996) v. 92 Isabel was splashed by a paddling infant, who made her wipe water away from her eyes and remark, ‘God, that takes me back.’ 2004 County Wedding Mag. 55/1 It took me right back to slow dancing with Tim..under a revolving disco ball in 1987. 5. transitive (chiefly in passive). To surprise, to shock; to discomfit; = to take aback 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] gloppena1250 abavea1400 ferlya1400 forferlya1400 supprisec1405 stonish1488 surprend1549 stagger1556 thunderbolta1586 admire1598 startle1598 thunderstrike1613 siderate1623 dumbfound1653 surprise1655 stammer1656 strange1657 astartlea1680 dumbfounder1710 knock1715 to take aback1751 flabbergast1773 to take back1796 stagnate1829 to put aback1833 to make (a person) sit up1878 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1884 transmogrify1887 rock1947 to flip out1964 1796 T. W. Tone Jrnl. 4 Nov. in Life (1826) II. 226 Colonel Shee seemed a little taken back with this anecdote. 1829 J. Emerson Lett. from Ægean x. 190 I was somewhat taken back with the reverence with which his proceedings were gazed on by the crew. 1887 Mrs. C. Reade Maid o' Mill II. xxvii. 112 You took me back a bit at first, Miss Spry, I own. 1915 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 664 I must say that I was rather taken back by his remark. 1953 Times 20 June 7/4 They were a little taken back..when the gallery struck through the general acclaim a disconcerting note of dissent. 1994 P. Baker Blood Posse v. 57 We rode along in silence. Dave was clearly taken back by the draft call-up. 6. transitive. To return (goods purchased and subsequently found to be faulty or otherwise unsatisfactory) to the seller or place of purchase, typically in exchange for a refund or replacement. ΚΠ 1876 Independent 23 Nov. 25/1 There ain't no use in a fellow having a pair of rubber boots if he can't wear them. Mother might just as well take them back to the store again. 1947 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 10/5 If, when you buy a new hat, your wife should say, ‘That's terrible-looking; take it back to the store!’..you know what happens. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 29 He wanted the little violin which Hans..took back to the store. 1994 CompuServe Mag. Mar. 27/2 Take the monitor back to the store and buy the same one with the vendor's antiglare coating on the screen. 2011 Independent 5 Nov. (Mag.) 63/4 Two colleagues were given the same attitude when taking back bikes so poorly assembled they posed a health risk. < as lemmas |
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