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move back

v. pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire]

Usage examples of "move back".

As he signaled his men to move back inside the ice cavern, he noticed that the lead walker was still treading heavily in the direction of the power generators.

As I feared, his conditions for allowing me to move back into my old room were more than I could agree to.

Smoleni farmer refugees had already begun to move back into the districts abandoned by the Komarsi the summer before, to begin their spring plowing.

The man had a hair-trigger temper and would not have given thought to the simple fact that a message would take at least two days to get to Naples and even troops stationed on the border would take weeks to move back.

We came through a series of ramps and stairs into the huge, bleak room at the pit of the ship lighted by only the thin glow of fluorescence, with the dark hum of the transistors the only sound in all of these spaces and it was there at last where I halted him, motioning him with a gesture to move back against one of the walls while I stood across from him.