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vb. (context UK idiomatic English) To slightly change a previous opinion about something, or what was said.
Usage examples of "row back".
There was a good deal of noise and trampling of feet as the Spaniards took their place in the boats again, and then the heavy splashing of many oars as they started to row back against the tide to their own vessel.
But the emptiness of it frightened him, and for no better reason than that, he decided to row back.
The Walrus and Seamew turned together, began to row back, the men at the oars heaving in an intent silence.
Soon the boat would be almost afloat, but it promised to be a long row back to the ship.
The High Lords and Ladies were arrayed in a thick hollow circle under the great dome at the chamber's heart with the lesser nobles ranked behind, row on row back into the forest of columns, all in their best velvets and silks and laces, wide sleeves and ruffed collars and peaked hats, all murmuring uneasily so the towering ceiling echoed the sounds of nervous geese.
Gerda ran forward and pulled Howe to his feet and they stood there, in silhouette against the flames, watching the boat row back to the dark huddle of men on the ice about a mile away.
Maybe he should have said he had a carload of teenagers in the jalopy, waiting for him to row back to shore.
They had first been taken to a town on the African mainland, and then transferred to the galleys and made to row back to Sicily.