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goes back

goes back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go back.

Meaning of go back

Verb

go back (third-person singular simple present goes back, present participle going back, simple past went back, past participle gone back)

  1. (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
    • We were getting cold so we decided to go back.

Questions about goes back

What is goes back the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go back.

Words near goes back in the dictionary

  1. goes at
  2. goes at a good clip
  3. goes at it
  4. goes away
  5. goes awry
  6. goes back
  7. goes back a long way
  8. goes back in time
  9. goes back on
  10. goes back to
  11. goes back to the drawing board

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes back (page history and authors); go 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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