💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Double back"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| turn backverb | (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps. |
| backtrackverb | To retrace one's steps. |
| run backverb | To take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to their house. |
| switchbacknoun | (by extension) (chiefly Canada, US, road transport) A sharp bend in a path or road which causes a traveller to almost reverse their direction of travel, especially one of a series of such bends on an incline; a hairpin bend; also a path or road having such a series of bends. |
| backtrailnoun | The path over which one has already traveled. |
| recurverb | Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly. |
| reflexnoun | An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing. |
| back upverb | (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost. |
| row backverb | (UK, idiomatic) To change or revise a previous opinion or decision. |
| walk the cat backverb | Alternative form of walk back the cat. [(intelligence) To retrace events so as to determine where an operation went wrong and who was responsible.] |
| retuckverb | To tuck again. |
| throw backverb | (transitive) To drink quickly, especially alcoholic beverages. |
| two-timeverb | (transitive) To be unfaithful to one's (sexual) partner. |
| reboundnoun | (basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player. |
| addorseverb | To place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back). |
| to and froverb | Back and forth; with a reciprocating motion. |
| backstepnoun | A step backwards |
| hark backverb | (intransitive) (figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event). |
| backpedalnoun | An act of backpedalling (in any sense). |
| walk back the catverb | (intelligence) To retrace events so as to determine where an operation went wrong and who was responsible. |
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