to come back
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1.3
- phrasal verb
- /kʌm bæk/
:
volver
- After the storm, the power will eventually come back to our neighborhood.
- come back to life
- come back here
- come back home
Should this young woman come back to the UK?
- Should this young woman come back to the UK?
- So they're not forcing anybody to come back yet.
- So they go and they come back not even accepted.
- I'm not real sure all of him came back from that trip.
- He went down to Texas for a long time, came back to Wisconsin.
- And they, the person that came back was not the person I knew.
- So at night I come back, she's quit her job.
- Lace lace him up, go for a run, come back, change, go to work.
- Because your body is conditioned to come back to the homeostasis.
- Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia.
Examples
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When... when did they come back?
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Your mom told him not to come back, and he left your house.
Academic text (2013) -
Now, of course, it could come back again, right?
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Should this young woman come back to the UK?
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A little bit does come back, but not very much.
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Trust your wife and come back home.
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I told 'em to come back at another time.
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And then we came back to Camp Lejeune.
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Don't come back too late.
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You leave Wednesday afternoon from San Pedro, come back the following Wednesday evening.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Return to a previous place, topic, or state
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1.0
Go back to a place, state or activity
748
2.5
Get back to a normal state after a loss, for example health or money
297
3.1
To start an activity again after a pause
159
2.1
To go back to a previous place or state
107
2.9
To set something back to its original state
70
2.7
To come back into sight after being away for a time
67
4.2
To go back to a previous state or way of doing things
47
2.1
To return to a place or situation after a short time away
42
4.3
To get back to normal after a problem
14
3.2
To go back into a place or situation after leaving it
8
4.1
To appear again after being away or hidden
Antonyms
How Restored
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to reach an equal score after being behind' is a straightforward metaphorical extension of 'come' (to move/arrive) + 'back' (to a previous position): learners who know both constituents can infer a return or recovery to a prior state. This motion verb + particle composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English patterns, so a B1 learner will likely understand this sports sense from the parts.
Etymology
Come back shows a simple picture: the parts come (move toward) and back (to the same place), like your strength walking back to you after illness. So it means 'to be restored or return to a previous state'.