went back to

Returned to previously

Went back to indicates returning to a previous state, location, activity, or topic.

You might go back to your hometown, go back to an earlier point in a conversation, or go back to a job you left: After trying freelance work, she went back to her old company.

It often implies resumption after interruption: He went back to reading his book.

Related

revert · reconcile · rekindle · stairs · footsteps · reminisce · revisit · apologize · threshold · reunite · regression · flashback · reconnect · rewind · gate · echo · recall · reconsider

Opposites
direction of movement

went back toleft

Departed or portside

abandoned · fled · exited · walked away from · kept away from

continuity vs. return

went back togave up

Abandoned an attempt

abandoned · quit · kept away from · forsook · renounced

temporal direction of activity

went back tooutgrew

Became too large for

left behind

Family

went, back, backwards, backward, backwardness, backside, backstage, backtrack, backed

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