turn back

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.

   “Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.”

2. fiil To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.

   “The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.”

3. fiil To return to a previous state of being.

   “He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.”

4. fiil To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.

   “The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.”

5. fiil To adjust to a previous setting.

   “In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.”

6. fiil To fold something back; to fold down.

   “When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.”

7. fiil To give back; to return.

   “We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.”