Antonyms for fall backfall 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

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

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

2. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

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

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

   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

3. fall backverb

   move back and away from

   "The enemy fell back"

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

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

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

   retreat

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

   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

5. fall back, resort, recurverb

   have recourse to

   "The government resorted to rationing meat"

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

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

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

   go back to bad behavior

   "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"

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

   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

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1. fall back

   Synonyms:
   recede, retreat, retire, withdraw

How to use fall back in a sentence?

1. William Bauer:

   It's nice to have money to fall back on for the inevitable rainy day.

2. Adewale Ogunleye:

   Being a former athlete, I just realized that the industry could do a better job of providing guidance to our high net-worth individuals, especially our athletes, and using our platform to help with financial decisions, i made a ton of money; that didn’t make me an expert in money. So, I went back to school, I educated myself. But, I do feel like our advisors at our firm should have an obligation to teach as they go, teach our athletes to understand what their finances are, and make sure that they have a legacy to fall back on when their playing days are over.

3. 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.

4. Bhanu Prakash Kolla:

   You usually end up trying to determine how much time you have left to sleep and worrying about whether you will fall back to sleep in a reasonable amount of time, this can in fact make the process of returning to sleep more difficult.

5. 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.

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