Synonyms for turn back
Most common
turn away drive out drive off drive away regress check back-track double back
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Drive away — to prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress
drive away, stop, turn away, drive out, drive off, chase away, repel, dispel
4. About-face — to reverse direction and retrace one's steps
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
- v. 2
To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
- v. 3
To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
- v. 4
To return to a previous state of being.
Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
Related words
- Word family
- turnback
Example sentences
- regress It is quite clear that they are going to make us regress.
- check I'd like to check out. Could you call the bellboy?
By length
- 4 letters
- stop1
- 5 letters
- check1, repel2
- 6 letters
- return2, arrest2, revert2, dispel2, invert2
- 7 letters
- contain2, reverse2, regress2
- 9 letters
- retrovert
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repel2 = 2 syllables).