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roared back

roared back is the simple past and past participle of roar back.

Meaning of roar back

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

Questions about roared back

What is roared back the simple past and past participle of?
Roared back is the simple past and past participle of roar back.

Words near roared back in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roared back (page history and authors); roar 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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