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fall back

English

  1. 🔊 retreat
  2. 🔊 move back and away from
    “The enemy fell back”
  3. 🔊 fall backwards and down
  4. 🔊 have recourse to
    “The government resorted to rationing meat”
  5. 🔊 hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  6. 🔊 go back to bad behavior
    “Those who recidivate are often minor criminals”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 replegar to fall back, retreat

Similar words

relapse lapse recidivate regress retrogress drop off fall behind recede lag dawdle fall behind resort recur avoid back back down back out back up backslide beat a retreat blench blink come after come last