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roars back

roars back is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 roars back

What is roars back the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Roars back is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roar back.

Words near roars back in the dictionary

  1. Roarks
  2. roarless
  3. roars
  4. roars ahead
  5. roars away
  6. roars back
  7. roars off
  8. roars on
  9. roars out
  10. roarsome
  11. Roarty

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