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go back

verb
  1. To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. (intransitive) · We were getting cold so we decided to go back.· Humans had discovered fire and there was no going back.
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Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with passion.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 65 · B2
I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered;” and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 71 · B2
“And even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last--to the men who are thy brothers--if thou art not killed in the Council.”
The Jungle Book, p. 17 · B2
But they fell to fighting on the road, and it was too much trouble to go back with what was left of the fruit.
The Jungle Book, p. 50 · B2

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