drop back
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take position in the rear, as in a military formation or in the line of scrimmage in football
The defender dropped back behind his teammate
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Sense 2 verb
to lag or linger behind
But in so many other areas we still are dragging
Types & categories
- lag hypernym
Related & opposite
- trailer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | trailer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lag |