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inch back

inch back verb: to move something backward by a very small amount, often in a slow and gradual way.

Verb

inch back (third-person singular simple present inches back, present participle inching back, simple past and past participle inched back)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To move something backward by a very small amount, often in a slow and gradual way.

Forms of inch back

third-person singular presentinches back
present participleinching back
past participleinched back
pastinched back

Questions about inch back

What does inch back mean?
Inch back means to move something backward by a very small amount, often in a slow and gradual way.
What part of speech is inch back?
Inch back is a verb.
What is the past tense of inch back?
The past tense of inch back is inched back.

Words near inch back in the dictionary

  1. incestuousness
  2. incesty
  3. inch
  4. inch along
  5. inch away
  6. inch back
  7. inch by inch
  8. inch field
  9. inch fields
  10. inch forward
  11. inch plum

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