take back

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• verb To retract an earlier statement
• verb To cause to remember some past event or time
• verb To resume a relationship
• verb To regain possession of something
• verb To return something

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• verb cause someone to remember the past
• verb resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
• verb regain possession of something
• verb bring back to the point of departure
• verb move text to the previous line; in printing
• verb take back what one has said