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double back

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double back
vb
(intr, adverb) to go back in the opposite direction (esp in the phrase to double back on one's tracks)
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Verb1.double back - retrace one's coursedouble back - retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"

double back
verb backtrack, circle, reverse, return, loop, dodge, retrace your steps Double back for 50 yards.
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? double back
vi (person)kehrtmachen, zurückgehen/-fahren; (animal)kehrtmachen, zurücklaufen; (road, river)sich zurückwinden or -schlängeln
vt sep blanketumschlagen; pageumknicken


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Afterwards she must double back to Havre and take the Bordlaise for New York on Saturday.
And then I could at last shut, with a clear conscience, the door of my stateroom and get my double back into the recessed part.
 
 
 
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