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doubling back

doubling back is the present participle and gerund 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 doubling back

What is doubling back the present participle and gerund of?
Doubling back is the present participle and gerund of double back.

Words near doubling back in the dictionary

  1. doubleword
  2. doublewords
  3. doubleyou
  4. doubleyous
  5. doubling
  6. doubling back
  7. doubling cube
  8. doubling cubes
  9. doubling dice
  10. doubling die
  11. doubling down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doubling 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.

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