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double back

double back verb: to retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.

Verb

double back (third-person singular simple present doubles back, present participle doubling back, simple past and past participle doubled back)

  1. (idiomatic) To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
    • They doubled back in hopes of finding the road again.
    • And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club

Forms of double back

third-person singular presentdoubles back
present participledoubling back
past participledoubled back
pastdoubled back

Questions about double back

What does double back mean?
Double back means to retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
What part of speech is double back?
Double back is a verb.
What is the past tense of double back?
The past tense of double back is doubled back.

Words near double back in the dictionary

  1. double appointments
  2. double articulation
  3. double As
  4. double aunt
  5. double aunts
  6. double back
  7. double bar
  8. double bar line
  9. double bar lines
  10. double barrel vault
  11. double barrel vaults

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