Phrasal Verbs
to allow someone, such as your husband, wife, or partner, to come home after they have left because of a problem
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to make someone remember something The smell of the sea took him back to his childhood. That song takes me back 30 years.
- 1if you take something back to a store, or a store takes something back, you return something that you have bought there, for example because it is the wrong size or does not work
- 2to admit that something you said was wrong or that you should not have said it OK, I take it all back!