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went back

went back is the simple past of go back.

Meaning of go back

Verb

go back (third-person singular simple present goes back, present participle going back, simple past went back, past participle gone back)

  1. (intransitive) To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
    • We were getting cold so we decided to go back.

Questions about went back

What is went back the simple past of?
Went back is the simple past of go back.

Words near went back in the dictionary

  1. went at
  2. went at a good clip
  3. went at it
  4. went away
  5. went awry
  6. went back
  7. went back a long way
  8. went back in time
  9. went back on
  10. went back to
  11. went back to the drawing board

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went back (page history and authors); go 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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