BOUNCE BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bounce back mean? 

• BOUNCE BACK (verb)
  The verb BOUNCE BACK has 1 sense:

1. improve in health

  Familiarity information: BOUNCE BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUNCE BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improve in health

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bounce back; get over; get well

Context example:

He got well fast

Hypernyms (to "bounce back" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Now Shark Bay's seagrasses are struggling to bounce back from the heat wave.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)

The energy of Jupiter will bounce back and forth between the two houses, and both will benefit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"At that point, it is very unlikely for them to bounce back."

(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)

Now, new research shows that a mutualistic relationship — where two organisms benefit from each other's activities — between ribbed mussels and salt marsh grasses may play a critical role in helping salt marshes bounce back from extreme climate events such as drought.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)