turn back
Retrace your steps
Turn back means to reverse direction and return the way you came: We turned back when the trail became impassable.
It can also mean to cause someone to reverse course: Guards turned back refugees at the border.
Figuratively, to turn back is to revert to an earlier state or abandon progress: There's no turning back now.
To turn back the clock is to return to or restore conditions from the past.
Follow a previous path
- backtrackReverse one's position
- withdrawRemove or pull away
- reverse courseChange to opposite direction
- about-faceFull directional reversal
recoil · give ground · beat a retreat · change course · reconsider · have second thoughts
retrace
Follow a previous path
- backtrackReverse one's position
- withdrawRemove or pull away
- reverse courseChange to opposite direction
about-face · recoil · give ground · beat a retreat · change course · reconsider · have second thoughts
ward off
Actively prevent approach
defend · hold off · counter · thwart · deter · deflect · parry · block · withstand · oppose
refuse
Reject or garbage
rebuff · spurn · disallow · veto · send away · bar · exclude · repudiate · disavow · renounce
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- returnsrebound, comeback, refund, rebate, retrieve
- retreat commandswithdraw, retreat, disengage, pull out, evacuate
- reading actionsflip, skim, browse, scan, peruse
- Folk Dancingdo-si-do, dosido, dosado, promenade, allemande
- turnsrotate, spin, pivot, twist, bends
turn backpress on
Continue despite hardship
continue · press forward · push forward · advance · proceed
turn backpersevere
Continue despite obstacles
persist · press on · see it through · soldier on · stay the course
back, turn, return, turning, backing, turned, returns, backed, turns