Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- To return to a previous state of being.
- (transitive) To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress.
- {lb|en|transitive}} To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (obsolete, transitive) To give back; to return.
Esimerkit
- Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
- Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
- The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
- In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
- I love that song: turn back to it!
- When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
- We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, / When we have soiled them.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | turned back |
| Imperfekti | turned back |
| Partisiipin preesens | turning back |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | turns back |