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fall back
Found in thesaurus: recline, recede, pull back, retreat, retire, retrogress, retrograde, utilize, employ, retrovert, return
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fall back
retreat, recede; fail to keep a promise
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Dear Jayne
Dear Jayne is a R&B/pop trio from Atlanta, Georgia. Their debut album, Voice Message, was originally scheduled to be released in March 2008 but has been cancelled indefinitely. One single scheduled to be on the album, "Rain", broke onto the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 99.
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Fall back and forward
Fall back is a feature of a modem protocol in data communication whereby two communicating modems which experience data corruption (due to line noise, for example) can renegotiate with each other to use a lower-speed connection. Fall forward is a corresponding feature whereby two modems which have "fallen back" to a lower speed can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
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fall back
Verb
1. fall backwards and down
(hypernym) lean back, recline
2. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
(synonym) lag, dawdle, fall behind
(hypernym) follow
(hyponym) drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind
3. move back and away from; "The enemy fell back"
(synonym) recede, retire
(hypernym) withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back
(hyponym) ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb out, ebb off
(derivation) disengagement, fallback, pullout
4. retreat
(synonym) lose, drop off, fall behind, recede
(antonym) gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
(hypernym) regress, retrograde, retrogress
5. have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
(synonym) resort, recur
(hypernym) use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
6. go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
(synonym) relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress
(hypernym) revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
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fall back
move back, go back The runner fell back from the rest of the runners when the race was half over.
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fall back
Synonyms and related words:
avoid, back, back down, back out, back up, backslide, beat a retreat, blench, blink, come after, come last, cringe, degenerate, deteriorate, disengage, disimprove, dodge, draw back, draw off, duck, evade, fade, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall behind, fall from grace, flinch, follow, get worse, give back, give ground, give place, go back, go backwards, grow worse, hang back, have a relapse, jib, lag behind, lapse, lapse back, let down, move back, pull back, pull out, quail, recidivate, recoil, recur to, reel back, regress, relapse, retire, retract, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return to, revert, revert to, run back, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shy, sicken, sidestep, sink back, slacken, slide back, slip back, stand back, start aside, start back, swerve, trail, trail behind, turn aside, weasel, weasel out, wince, withdraw, worsen, yield again to
avoid, back, back down, back out, back up, backslide, beat a retreat, blench, blink, come after, come last, cringe, degenerate, deteriorate, disengage, disimprove, dodge, draw back, draw off, duck, evade, fade, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall behind, fall from grace, flinch, follow, get worse, give back, give ground, give place, go back, go backwards, grow worse, hang back, have a relapse, jib, lag behind, lapse, lapse back, let down, move back, pull back, pull out, quail, recidivate, recoil, recur to, reel back, regress, relapse, retire, retract, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, retrogress, return to, revert, revert to, run back, sheer off, shrink, shrink back, shy, sicken, sidestep, sink back, slacken, slide back, slip back, stand back, start aside, start back, swerve, trail, trail behind, turn aside, weasel, weasel out, wince, withdraw, worsen, yield again to
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