Definition of turn back in English Turkish dictionary
- dönmek
Geri dönmek zorunda kalacağız.
-We're going to have to turn back.
Geri dönmek için çok geç.
-It's too late to turn back.
- reddetmek
- geri döndürmek
- kaytarmak
- geri döndür
Keşke zamanı geri döndürebilsem.
-I wish I could turn back time.
- geri dönmek
Geri dönmek için çok geç.
-It's too late to turn back.
Geri dönmek zorunda kalacağız.
-We're going to have to turn back.
- geri almak
- geri çevirmek
- gerilemek
- kıvırmak
- katlamak
- kovmak
- turn one's back on
- sırtını dönmek
- turn one's back on
- sırt çevirmek
- turn one's back on
- birine/bir şeye sırt çevirmek
- turn one's back on
- (Konuşma Dili) dikkate almamak
- turn one's back on
- sırtını çevirmek
- turn one's back
- (deyim) Sırtını dönmek, ilgilenmemek; destek vermemek
Political scientists turned their backs upon the entire tradition of normative political thought.
- turn one´s back on
- -e sırt çevirmek
- turn one´s back on s.o./s.t
- birine/bir şeye sırt çevirmek
- turn one's back
- sırt dönmek
- turn one's back (on somebody)
- sırt çevirmek
- turnback
- geri döndür
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Definition of turn back in English English dictionary
- To fold something back; to fold down
When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
- To adjust to a previous setting
I love that song, turn back to it!.
- To return to a previous state of being
Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
- To prevent or refuse to allow passage or progress
The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
- To reverse direction and retrace one's steps
Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back to the office.
- return, go back
- go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
- If you turn back or if someone turns you back when you are going somewhere, you change direction and go towards where you started from. She turned back towards the crossroads They were very nearly forced to turn back Police attempted to turn back protesters marching towards the offices of President Ershad
- retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
- If you cannot turn back, you cannot change your plans and decide not to do something, because the action you have already taken makes it impossible. The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"
- turn back the clock
- To return to a previous state
We had a terrible year so we agreed to turn back the clock and go on as if it hadn't happened.
- turn back the clock
- Turn (or put) back the clock: return to the past or to a previous way of doing things
- turn one's back
- To cease paying attention to something
As soon as I turned my back, he started writing on the wall.
- turn one's back
- To forsake, to abandon; to ignore
He got off to a strong start, only to turn his back on the project two months later.
- turnback
- Used attributively to describe part of a garment that is turned back
- To turn back
- retrovert
- to turn one's back
- walk away from one who needs one's help
- turn one's back
- left him, ceased to participate with him
- turn the clock back
- go back to the hour which just passed; go back to the past