Fall back - definition, transcription
verb
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. (syn: dawdle, fall behind, lag)
- move back and away from
- retreat (syn: drop off, fall behind, recede)
- have recourse to (syn: recur, resort)
- go back to bad behavior (syn: lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress)
Extra examples
Our army forced the enemy to fall back.
Production has fallen back in the last few months.
...resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back...
The band were so short of musicians that they had to fall back upon students.
Doctors sometimes fall back on old cures when modern medicine does not work.
They watched the kite fall back to earth.
He yelled for his men to fall back.
She has no relatives to fall back on.
Where negotiation fails, they must fall back on the law.
I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.
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