turn back

1. Retrace one's course (synset 202008542)
   "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
   is a type of: return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
   same as: backtrack, double back
2. Go back to a previous state (synset 200387981)
   "We reverted to the old rules"
   is a type of: change by reversal, reverse, turn - change to the contrary
   subtypes:

   • fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress - go back to bad behavior
   • resile - return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed
   • go back, recover, recuperate - regain a former condition after a financial loss
   same as: regress, retrovert, return, revert
3. Force to go away;
   Used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings (synset 202006752)
   "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
   is a type of: displace, move - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
   subtypes:

   • fire - drive out or away by or as if by fire
   • clear the air - dispel differences or negative emotions
   • banish - drive away
   • shoo, shoo away, shoo off - drive away by crying `shoo!'
   same as: chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off
   verb group: drive out, force out, rouse, rout out - force or drive out
4. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy;
   Check the expansion or influence of (synset 201133899)
   "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
   is a type of: defend - be on the defensive; act against an attack
   subtypes: cut down, cut out - intercept (a player)
   same as: arrest, check, contain, hold back, stop
5. Turn inside out or upside down (synset 200387386)
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   same as: invert, reverse

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