to boomerang

2 5.5

Return to the person or place it came from, often causing harm

: volver

But suppressing or thwarting market forces and imposing state interventionism entails misallocation of resources and low productivity, which ultimately boomerangs against the well-being of the very social groups that it intended to help.
boomeranged back

Yes, yes, that like you didn't do it for, but you can't like not have because it boomerangs on you.

Examples

It got me used to sending out stories to magazines and having those manila envelopes come boomeranging right back at me.

Blog text (31)
The packers' racial divide-and-rule personnel practices backfired -- one might even say boomeranged -- in the late 1930s.

Academic text (2000)
So to tie up just to loose end here and bring this boomerang back to the initial question for a minute.
Just tell him lawmakers also have to get tested, and see how fast he boomerangs.

Blog text (20)
They have a way of boomeranging... changing a life forever.

Jason's Lyric (1994)
Clerical opposition to the movement had boomeranged.

Academic text (1992)
The attacks keep boomeranging because the Obama campaign keeps accusing Romney of things that the left itself is doing, only on a larger scale.

Blog text (13)
And the effort to make waste disappear by burying it, burning it, or dumping it in the ocean has boomeranged, generating greenhouse gases, dioxin, toxic leakage, and other threats to environmental and human health.

Academic text (1999)
Although some of the Turin strikers were conscripted and sent to the front at Caporetto as punishment, this strategy boomeranged when they helped to arouse the mutinous spirit accompanying the retreat.

Academic text (2017)
His harsh criticism boomeranged, causing his friends to turn against him.

to recoil

vsto boomerang

1 7.0

To have an unexpected bad result for the person or group who started it

focuses on an object or action unexpectedly returning to its origin rather than harm

to depart

176 1.3

To leave a place to start a journey

to disperse

104 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

to backfire

95 5.4

to boomerang

2 5.5

to come back

∞ 1.3

to rebound

42 4.3

boomerang infinitive

boomeranged past

boomeranged past participle

boomeranging present participle

boomerangs third person singular

Boomerang as a verb comes from the same image: something you throw or do 'returns' to where it started, often unexpectedly or with bad results.