turn back

v 1: retrace one's course [syn: {backtrack}, {double back}]

2: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"

[syn: {revert}, {return}, {regress}]

3: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric

meanings; "Drive away potential burglars'; "drive away bad

thoughts"; "dispel doubts" [syn: {chase away}, {drive out},

{drive away}, {dispel}, {drive off}, {run off}]

4: 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 SE Asia"; "Contain the rebel

movement" [syn: {check}, {arrest}, {stop}, {contain}, {hold

back}]