turn (sb) back
— phrasal verb with turn uk/tɜːn/us/tɝːn/verb
B2 to return in the direction you have come from, or to make someone do this:
We're lost - we'll have to turn back.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Returning to a place
- backtrack
- call
- call back
- come
- come back
- darken
- double
- double back
- get back
- go
- go back
- not darken sb's door idiom
- reappear
- regain
- resume
- retrace
- retrace your steps idiom
- return
- snap
- turn
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