Synonyms for fall back
fall back

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1. fall backverb

   Synonyms:
   ebb away, ebb, recede, retreat

2. fall backverb

   To retreat.

   Synonyms:
   retreat, ebb, ebb away, recede

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1. fall backverb

   fall backwards and down

   Synonyms:
   lose, resort, recede, retrogress, fall behind, drop off, recidivate, regress, dawdle, lag, lapse, relapse, recur

   Antonyms:
   pull ahead, advance, get ahead, make headway, gain, win, gain ground

2. lag, 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, recidivate

   Antonyms:
   make headway, advance, pull ahead, get ahead, win, gain ground, gain

3. fall 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, recur

   Antonyms:
   advance, gain, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, gain ground, win

4. fall 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 out

   Antonyms:
   gain ground, win, make headway, get ahead, gain, advance, pull ahead

5. fall 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, repair

   Antonyms:
   gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, advance, win, gain

6. relapse, 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 back

   Antonyms:
   advance, win, gain ground, get ahead, pull ahead, make headway, gain

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1. • Follow
   • Lean Back
   • Recede
   • Revert
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1. fall back

   Synonyms:
   recede, retreat, give way

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1. fall back

   Synonyms:
   recede, retreat, retire, withdraw

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How to use fall back in a sentence?

1. Bhanu Prakash Kolla:

   You usually end up trying to determine how much time you have left to sleep and worrying about whether you will fall back to sleep in a reasonable amount of time, this can in fact make the process of returning to sleep more difficult.

2. Sherrod Brown:

   We need to understand what happened here and we need to talk about it so we keep fighting on these issues, its clear we make progress and then we fall back because of Republican attacks on voting rights.

3. William LeoGrande:

   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.

4. William Temple:

   Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

5. David Amadia:

   That's become the fall-back for wineries.