take 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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Senses
Sense 1 verb
bring back to the point of departure
Types & categories
- bring hypernym
Related & opposite
- return derivation
Sense 2 verb
regain possession of something
Types & categories
- take hypernym
Related & opposite
- repossession derivation
Sense 3 verb
resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
Types & categories
- relate hypernym
Sense 4 verb
move text to the previous line; in printing
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Sense 5 verb
take back what one has said
He swallowed his words
Types & categories
- repudiate hypernym
Related & opposite
- withdrawal derivation
Sense 6 verb
cause someone to remember the past
This photo takes me back to the good old days
Types & categories
- remind hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | return |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | repossession |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | relate |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawal |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | repudiate |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | remind |