MOVE BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does move back mean? 

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

1. pull back or move away or backward

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVE BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pull back or move away or backward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

draw back; move back; pull away; pull back; recede; retire; retreat; withdraw

Context example:

The limo pulled away from the curb

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

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

back away; back out; crawfish; crawfish out; pull back; pull in one's horns; retreat; withdraw (make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move back"):

fall back (move back and away from)

retreat; retrograde (move back)

back down; back off; back up (move backwards from a certain position)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

They move back and forth between marine and freshwater ecosystems to rebalance their salt levels — and to feed.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

After July 1, Saturn will move back into Capricorn to finish out his tour of duty in your fourth house of home and family—July 1 to December 16, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)