Another word for took back

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1. return, take back, bring backverb

   bring back to the point of departure

   Synonyms:
   recall, devolve, bring around, deliver, swallow, withdraw, riposte, retrovert, regress, bring to, revert, bring round, unsay, refund, give, retort, bring back, generate, fall, repossess, reelect, return, pass, yield, hark back, come back, repay, render, rejoin, give back, turn back

2. take back, repossessverb

   regain possession of something

   Synonyms:
   reclaim, return, bring back, repossess, swallow, withdraw, unsay

3. take backverb

   resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband

   Synonyms:
   bring back, withdraw, swallow, return, repossess, unsay

4. take backverb

   move text to the previous line; in printing

   Synonyms:
   bring back, withdraw, swallow, return, repossess, unsay

5. swallow, take back, unsay, withdrawverb

   take back what one has said

   «He swallowed his words»

   Synonyms:
   swallow, bring back, eat up, sequester, repossess, seclude, back away, crawfish out, return, crawfish, retreat, get down, take, call in, back out, retire, pull away, take out, swallow up, unsay, bow out, draw back, recede, bury, recall, move back, call back, sequestrate, draw, draw off, accept, take away, adjourn, disengage, withdraw, immerse, pull back, live with, pull in one’s horns, remove

6. take backverb

   cause someone to remember the past

   «This photo takes me back to the good old days»

   Synonyms:
   bring back, withdraw, swallow, return, repossess, unsay

Matched Categories

1. • Move
   • Relate
   • Remind
   • Renounce
   • Take

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1. Matthew Elliott:

   When we vote to leave we can take back control of the ability to strike trade deals that we’ve given up to Brussels bureaucrats, canada has n’t given up control of its borders or handed Brussels 350 million pounds every week to trade with the EU, and nor should we.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   We Democrats have a chance to take back the Senate.

3. The President:

   I’m absolutely convinced that we will have a Democratic successor as president, i believe we will take back the United States Senate. I think we will make real progress with respect to the House. But it depends on people feeling as if that can happen, and being engaged and working just as hard and just as full of hope as they did in 2008. And that’s going to depend on me, but it’s also going to depend on you. It’s going to depend on each of us.

4. Ed Kamuda:

   Let nature take back what is hers, it’s only a matter of time before it’s a brown stain and a collection of pig iron on the ocean floor.

5. Donald Trump:

   You go and knock the hell out of the oil, take back the oil, we take over the oil, which we should have done in the first place.

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