turn back
v 1: retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had
to turn back" [syn: backtrack, double back]
2: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
[syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress]
3: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric
meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad
thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn
back many disappointed customers" [syn: chase away, drive
out, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off]
4: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion
or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the
growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel
movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check,
arrest, stop, contain, hold back]
WordNet (r) 2.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "turn back":
about ship, assimilate to, avert, back and fill, bear away,
bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, beat back, become,
box off, break, break back, bring about, bring round, bring to,
brush off, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change, change back,
change course, change into, change over, change the heading, chase,
chase away, chase off, come about, come again, come back,
come home, come up again, convert, cry back, cut, dismiss,
do a flip-flop, do an about-face, do over, double, double a point,
double back, draw aside, drive away, drive back, ease off, echo,
edge off, fend off, fetch about, flip-flop, fly off, gee, glance,
glance off, go about, go back, go home, go off, gybe, hark back,
haw, head off, heave round, hold off, jib, jibe, jibe all standing,
keep coming, keep off, make, make over, make way for, miss stays,
move aside, naturalize, pack off, ply, push back, put about,
put back, react, reappear, rebuff, reconvert, recur, reduce to,
refuse, render, reoccur, repeat, repel, repulse, resolve into,
resound, resume, return, reverberate, reverse, revert,
round a point, send away, send off, send packing, sheer, sheer off,
shift, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sidestep, sidetrack,
sidle, slew, snub, spurn, steer clear of, step aside, swerve,
swing round, swing the stern, switch, switch over, tack,
throw about, thrust back, transform, turn, turn about, turn around,
turn aside, turn away, turn into, veer, veer off, ward off, wear,
wear ship, wind, yaw
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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