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Synonyms for fall back
fall back
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fall backverb
fall backwards and down
Synonyms:
lose, resort, recede, retrogress, fall behind, drop off, recidivate, regress, dawdle, lag, lapse, relapse, recurAntonyms:
pull ahead, advance, get ahead, make headway, gain, win, gain groundlag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Synonyms:
lag, immure, recur, incarcerate, relapse, retrogress, dally, linger, lapse, remand, regress, imprison, jug, dawdle, fall behind, put behind bars, lose, gaol, jail, resort, recede, drop off, put away, recidivateAntonyms:
make headway, advance, pull ahead, get ahead, win, gain ground, gainfall backverb
move back and away from
"The enemy fell back"
Synonyms:
lose, resort, recede, retrogress, fall behind, drop off, recidivate, regress, dawdle, lag, lapse, relapse, recurAntonyms:
advance, gain, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, gain ground, winfall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb
retreat
Synonyms:
unload, fall asleep, misplace, lose, draw back, mislay, drop off, retire, withdraw, retreat, turn a loss, lapse, fall away, drift off, dope off, relapse, recidivate, dawdle, pull away, drop away, recur, fall behind, resort, set down, recede, put down, doze off, move back, nod off, regress, drop, suffer, discharge, miss, drowse off, retrogress, lag, pull back, slip, flake outAntonyms:
gain ground, win, make headway, get ahead, gain, advance, pull aheadfall back, resort, recurverb
have recourse to
"The government resorted to rationing meat"
Synonyms:
lag, repeat, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall behind, regress, go back, drop off, lose, dawdle, resort, recur, recede, relapse, repairAntonyms:
gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, advance, win, gainrelapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb
go back to bad behavior
"Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Synonyms:
go along, lapse, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, relapse, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn backAntonyms:
advance, win, gain ground, get ahead, pull ahead, make headway, gain
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#357 | return | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2158 | drop | |
#3169 | lose | |
#4802 | repeat | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6848 | suffer | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7628 | jail | |
#8206 | retreat | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#12529 | retire | |
#13205 | misplace | |
#14447 | lag | |
#20021 | revert | |
#20051 | jug | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#25141 | relapse | |
#27779 | remand | |
#28374 | unload | |
#30671 | ebb | |
#32577 | linger | |
#38684 | retrograde | |
#39147 | regress | |
#46382 | recur | |
#61103 | gaol | |
#63983 | recede | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#74223 | imprison | |
#81209 | dally | |
#155167 | incarcerate | |
#218314 | dawdle | |
#233972 | backslide |
How to use fall back in a sentence?
We are seeing that younger voters who were voting in some of these elections because of Donald Trump don't seem to be inspired by President Joe Biden, and I think John Brabender.Read will fall back to traditional levels.
There’s a danger ... the Biden administration will fall back into the old habit of a piecemeal, quid pro quo approach in which the United States takes only limited steps and demands Cuban concessions on its internal politics, that’s a formula for paralysis.
Lockout. during all those bad times that happened in the past an industry that did not fall back was the film industry.
During all those bad times that happened in the past an industry that did not fall back was the film industry.
The God who is Lord of the universe, the personal God who created and sustains our world so that it does not fall back into nothingness, the God who saves us through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, seeks to be the center of each and every human life.
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- se rabattre, se replierFrench
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