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inched back

inched back is the simple past and past participle of inch back.

Meaning of inch back

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.

Questions about inched back

What is inched back the simple past and past participle of?
Inched back is the simple past and past participle of inch back.

Words near inched back in the dictionary

  1. Inchbonnie
  2. Inchcape
  3. inched
  4. inched along
  5. inched away
  6. inched back
  7. inched forward
  8. inched up
  9. Incheon
  10. incher
  11. inchers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inched back (page history and authors); inch 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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