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take back

verb
  1. To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement). (transitive) · No, you are not fat; I take it all back.
  2. To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time. (transitive) · That tune takes me back to my childhood.
  3. To resume a relationship with (someone). (transitive) · She has forgiven him, and taken him back.
  4. Physically so. (transitive) · The wedding is off, and he has taken back the ring.
  5. Culturally so. (transitive) · The Queer community took back the word from their disparagers.
  6. To return (something) to a vendor for a refund. (transitive) · Take back faulty goods to the shop where you bought them.
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He ordered another—an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot—to take back with him.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 5 · C1

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