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COME BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be restored
Example:
Her old vigor returned
Synonyms:
come back; return
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "come back" is one way to...):
re-emerge; reappear (appear again)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Answer back
Synonyms:
come back; rejoin; repay; retort; return; riposte
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come back" is one way to...):
answer; reply; respond (react verbally)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
comeback (a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Go back to something earlier
Example:
This harks back to a previous remark of his
Synonyms:
come back; hark back; recall; return
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "come back" is one way to...):
denote; refer (have as a meaning)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come back"):
go back; recur (return in thought or speech to something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Even the score, in sports
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "come back" is one way to...):
catch up (reach the point where one should be after a delay)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
A drug used to treat breast cancer that has spread or that has come back within 6 months after chemotherapy.
(Paclitaxel albumin-stabilized nanoparticle formulation, NCI Dictionary)
Some of the colour had come back into his cheeks, though he still looked very sick and still continued to slip out and settle down as the ship banged about.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A test that is used to help predict whether breast cancer will spread to other parts of the body or come back.
(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of MUC-1 in the blood may help to find out how well cancer treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(MUC-1, NCI Dictionary)
Checking for these changes may help diagnose cancer or find out if cancer has come back.
(Chromosome 17, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of specific cytokeratins in the blood may help to plan cancer treatment or find out how well treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(Cytokeratin, NCI Dictionary)
If your doctor suspects that you have it, you'll start treatment before the lab tests come back.
(Diphtheria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Donor lymphocyte infusion is used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) that has come back and myeloma.
(Donor lymphocyte infusion, NCI Dictionary)
Well, we can only possess our soul in patience until this excellent inspector come back for us.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
