Synonyms for fall back
fall back

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1. fall backverb

   Synonyms:
   ebb away, ebb, recede, retreat

2. fall backverb

   To retreat.

   Synonyms:
   retreat, ebb, ebb away, recede

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1. fall backverb

   fall backwards and down

   Synonyms:
   lose, resort, recede, retrogress, fall behind, drop off, recidivate, regress, dawdle, lag, lapse, relapse, recur

   Antonyms:
   pull ahead, advance, get ahead, make headway, gain, win, gain ground

2. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

   hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

   Synonyms:
   lag, immure, recur, incarcerate, relapse, retrogress, dally, linger, lapse, remand, regress, imprison, jug, dawdle, fall behind, put behind bars, lose, gaol, jail, resort, recede, drop off, put away, recidivate

   Antonyms:
   make headway, advance, pull ahead, get ahead, win, gain ground, gain

3. fall backverb

   move back and away from

   "The enemy fell back"

   Synonyms:
   lose, resort, recede, retrogress, fall behind, drop off, recidivate, regress, dawdle, lag, lapse, relapse, recur

   Antonyms:
   advance, gain, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, gain ground, win

4. fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recedeverb

   retreat

   Synonyms:
   unload, fall asleep, misplace, lose, draw back, mislay, drop off, retire, withdraw, retreat, turn a loss, lapse, fall away, drift off, dope off, relapse, recidivate, dawdle, pull away, drop away, recur, fall behind, resort, set down, recede, put down, doze off, move back, nod off, regress, drop, suffer, discharge, miss, drowse off, retrogress, lag, pull back, slip, flake out

   Antonyms:
   gain ground, win, make headway, get ahead, gain, advance, pull ahead

5. fall back, resort, recurverb

   have recourse to

   "The government resorted to rationing meat"

   Synonyms:
   lag, repeat, lapse, recidivate, retrogress, fall behind, regress, go back, drop off, lose, dawdle, resort, recur, recede, relapse, repair

   Antonyms:
   gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, advance, win, gain

6. relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall backverb

   go back to bad behavior

   "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

   Synonyms:
   go along, lapse, slip away, recidivate, backslide, retrogress, lag, retrovert, regress, elapse, dawdle, revert, fall behind, sink, lose, glide by, retrograde, resort, pass, return, slide by, recede, drop off, relapse, slip by, go by, get worse, recur, turn back

   Antonyms:
   advance, win, gain ground, get ahead, pull ahead, make headway, gain

Matched Categories

1. • Follow
   • Lean Back
   • Recede
   • Revert
   • Use

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1. fall back

   Synonyms:
   recede, retreat, give way

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1. fall back

   Synonyms:
   recede, retreat, retire, withdraw

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1. Raj Dasgupta:

   It's important not to get worked up about one bad night's sleep because anxiety itself makes it difficult to fall back asleep.

2. John Brabender.Read:

   We are seeing that younger voters who were voting in some of these elections because of Donald Trump don't seem to be inspired by President Joe Biden, and I think John Brabender.Read will fall back to traditional levels.

3. Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome:

   The moisture and heat from the lake surface water are absorbed into the atmosphere by storm systems, and then fall back to the ground as snow in the winter.

4. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   We in Europe bear a joint responsibility for ensuring that we do not fall back into a nationalism of single states.

5. Nick Hague:

   As it rips us away from the rocket, once those thrusters are done. We're like if you throw a baseball up in the air, it's going to follow this ballistic trajectory, that weightlessness was when we were peaking out and getting ready to fall back down to the Earth.