bounce back
bounce back verb: to recover from a negative situation without seemingly any damage. Also the alternative form of bounceback.
Verb
bounce back (third-person singular simple present bounces back, present participle bouncing back, simple past and past participle bounced back)
- To recover from a negative situation without seemingly any damage.
- We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital.
- Chelsea bounced back from the disappointment of losing at Wolves in midweek to end City's 21-game unbeaten league run stretching back to April, and a sequence of 14 unbeaten games away from home.2018 December 8, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport
- Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, back.
Also used as
bounce back is also the alternative form of bounceback.
Forms of bounce back
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | bounces back |
| present participle | bouncing back |
| past participle | bounced back |
| past | bounced back |
| Noun | |
| plural | bounce backs |
Words formed from bounce back
Questions about bounce back
- What does bounce back mean?
- Bounce back means to recover from a negative situation without seemingly any damage.
- What part of speech is bounce back?
- Bounce back is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bounce back?
- The past tense of bounce back is bounced back.
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