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come back
Found in thesaurus: go, move, travel, locomote, reappear, re-emerge, refer, denote, catch up, answer, reply, respond
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come back
return
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Come-Back!
Come-Back! is a 1981 Dutch drama film directed by Jonne Severijn. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Comeback
Comeback, The Comeback or Come Back may refer to:
General
- Comeback (retort), a witty response to an insult or criticism
- Comeback (sports), an event where an athlete or team that is significantly losing a contest closes the gap
- Comeback (K-pop), a Korean pop music marketing term for promotions of an artist's single or album that is not their debut one.
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come back
Verb
1. come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
(synonym) return, go back, get back
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(hyponym) resurrect, rise, uprise
2. be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
(synonym) return
(hypernym) reappear, re-emerge
3. go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
(synonym) hark back, return, recall
(hypernym) denote, refer
(hyponym) recur, go back
4. even the score, in sports
(hypernym) catch up
5. answer back
(synonym) retort, repay, return, riposte, rejoin
(hypernym) answer, reply, respond
(derivation) rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
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卷土重来
juan3 tu3 chong2 lai2
Kicking up dust and coming back.
To make efforts to recover after a failure.
Kicking up dust and coming back.
To make efforts to recover after a failure.
合浦珠还
he2 pu3 zhu1 huan2
The return of Hepu pearls.
Referring to something that has been lost, and now returns to its rightful owner - or a person who returns to his native place after years of wandering far from home.
The return of Hepu pearls.
Referring to something that has been lost, and now returns to its rightful owner - or a person who returns to his native place after years of wandering far from home.
起死回生
qi3 si3 hui2 sheng1
Bringing the dead back to life.
This phrase is used to describe medical doctors of extraordinary skills. Snatching from the jaws of death.
Bringing the dead back to life.
This phrase is used to describe medical doctors of extraordinary skills. Snatching from the jaws of death.
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come back
Synonyms and related words:
acknowledge, answer, answer back, bounce back, come around, come back at, come home, come round, come to, come up smiling, double, double back, echo, flash back, get about, get over, get well, give acknowledgment, give answer, go back, go home, make a comeback, pull round, pull through, put back, rally, react, recover, recur, reecho, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, return to mind, reverberate, revive, riposte, say, say in reply, shoot back, survive, talk back, turn back, weather the storm,
acknowledge, answer, answer back, bounce back, come around, come back at, come home, come round, come to, come up smiling, double, double back, echo, flash back, get about, get over, get well, give acknowledgment, give answer, go back, go home, make a comeback, pull round, pull through, put back, rally, react, recover, recur, reecho, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, return to mind, reverberate, revive, riposte, say, say in reply, shoot back, survive, talk back, turn back, weather the storm,
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