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starting back

starting back is the present participle and gerund of start back.

Meaning of start back

Verb

start back (third-person singular simple present starts back, present participle starting back, simple past and past participle started back)

  1. (intransitive) To begin a return trip to a starting point.

Questions about starting back

What is starting back the present participle and gerund of?
Starting back is the present participle and gerund of start back.

Words near starting back in the dictionary

  1. starting a family
  2. starting a fresh hare
  3. starting a hare
  4. starting a hare running
  5. starting afresh
  6. starting back
  7. starting back in
  8. starting back on
  9. starting bar
  10. starting bars
  11. starting berth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starting back (page history and authors); start 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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