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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.
   Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.
   • 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
     He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
     Wrex: I escaped with my life. But not before I sank my dagger deep into my father's chest.
     Wrex: That... is why I left. And that's why I'll never go back.

• (return): Go back is used chiefly when talking about returning to a place where the speaker is not presently located. Otherwise come back is more common.

• go back on

• go back to

• go back to where you came from, go back to your country

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can

• Burmese: ပြန် (my) (pran)

• Cherokee: ᎢᎦᎷᎦ (igaluga), ᎢᎡᎦ (iega)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 回去 (zh) (huíqu) (go back), 返回 (zh) (fǎnhuí)

• Dutch: teruggaan (nl)

• Esperanto: reveturi, reiri

• Finnish: palata (fi), mennä takaisin

• French: rentrer (fr), retourner (fr)

• Friulian: tornâ

• Galician: volver (gl), voltar, retornar, regresar

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can

• German: zurückgehen (de), zurückfahren (de)

• Hungarian: visszamegy (hu)

• Ido: regresar (io), retroirar (io), rivenar (io)

• Italian: tornare (it)

• Japanese: 戻る (ja) (もどる, modoru), 帰る (ja) (kaeru)

• Khmer: ត្រឡប់ (trɑlɑp)

• Korean: 돌아가다 (ko) (doragada)

• Kurdish:
  Central Kurdish: ڕۆیشتنەوە (royiştnewe)

• Ladino: tornar atras

• Lao: ກັບໄປ (kap pai), ເມືອ (mư̄a)

• Latin: redeō (la)

• Malay: kembali (ms)

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

• Norman: rentrer

• Portuguese: voltar (pt)

• Romanian: întoarce (ro)

• Russian: возвраща́ться (ru) impf (vozvraščátʹsja), возврати́ться (ru) pf (vozvratítʹsja), верну́ться (ru) pf (vernútʹsja)

• Spanish: regresar (es), regresarse (es), estar de regreso (to start going back or to be on the way back), estarse de regreso (for imperatives), volver (es), volverse (es), estar de vuelta (to start going back or to be on the way back), estarse de vuelta (for imperatives)

• Swahili: kurejea

• Thai: กลับไป (glàp bpai)

• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: دونمك (dönmek)

• Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎁 (ṯb)

• Ukrainian: повертатися (povertatysja)

• Vietnamese: trở lại (vi)

• Walloon: raler (wa)

to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something

• come back
• turn back