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going back

going back is the present participle and gerund 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 going back

What is going back the present participle and gerund of?
Going back is the present participle and gerund of go back.

Words near going back in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: going 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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