turn back
verbe- To reverse direction and retrace one's steps. · Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
- To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps. · The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
- To return to a previous state of being. · He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.· Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
- To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress. · The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
- To adjust to a previous setting. · In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.· I love that song: turn back to it!
- To fold something back; to fold down. · When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
Dans la bibliothèque
This worried Dorothy a little, but she knew that only the Great Oz could help her get to Kansas again, so she bravely resolved not to turn back.
As a matter of fact, however, she had forgotten to turn back the bedclothes.
He lit the two candles which stood upon the mantelpiece, and then he proceeded to turn back the corner of the carpet in the neighbourhood of the door.
It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance; for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
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