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roar back

roar back verb: to suddenly become active, powerful or functional after a period of decline.

Verb

roar back (third-person singular simple present roars back, present participle roaring back, simple past and past participle roared back)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To suddenly become active, powerful or functional after a period of decline.
    • They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in patients whose tumors had been removed.2023 May 10, Benjamin Mueller, “Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    come roaring back, roar to life

Synonyms of roar back

  • come roaring back
  • roar to life

Forms of roar back

third-person singular presentroars back
present participleroaring back
past participleroared back
pastroared back

Questions about roar back

What does roar back mean?
Roar back means to suddenly become active, powerful or functional after a period of decline.
What part of speech is roar back?
Roar back is a verb.
What is the past tense of roar back?
The past tense of roar back is roared back.

Words near roar back in the dictionary

  1. roap
  2. roaps
  3. roar
  4. roar ahead
  5. roar away
  6. roar back
  7. roar off
  8. roar on
  9. roar out
  10. roared
  11. roared ahead

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