Word.ws English Dictionary

doubled back

doubled back is the simple past and past participle of double back.

Meaning of double back

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.

Questions about doubled back

What is doubled back the simple past and past participle of?
Doubled back is the simple past and past participle of double back.

Words near doubled back in the dictionary

  1. doublecrossed
  2. doublecrosses
  3. doublecrossing
  4. doublecrossings
  5. doubled
  6. doubled back
  7. doubled down
  8. doubled in brass
  9. doubled off
  10. doubled over
  11. doubled pawn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doubled back (page history and authors); double back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doubled back.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doubled_back. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.