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Definition of take back phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

take back

phrasal verb
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take somebody back
  1. to allow somebody, such as your husband, wife or partner, to come home after they have left because of a problem
take somebody back (to…)
  1. to make somebody remember something
    • The smell of the sea took him back to his childhood.
    • That song takes me back 30 years.
take something back
  1. if you take something back to a shop, or a shop takes something back, you return something that you have bought there, for example because it is the wrong size or does not work
  2. to admit that something you said was wrong or that you should not have said it
    • OK, I take it all back!
See take back in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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