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gone back

gone back is the past participle 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 gone back

What is gone back the past participle of?
Gone back is the past participle of go back.

Words near gone back in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gone 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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