take back

See also: takeback

English

take back (third-person singular simple present takes back, present participle taking back, simple past took back, past participle taken back)

(transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
Synonyms: recant, unsay; see also Thesaurus:recant

No, you are not fat; I take it all back.
(transitive) To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time.
That tune takes me back to my childhood.
(transitive) To resume a relationship with (someone).
She has forgiven him, and taken him back.
(transitive) To regain possession of (something).
1. Physically so.
  Synonym: reclaim
  
  The wedding is off, and he has taken back the ring.
2. Culturally so.
  Synonyms: reappropriate, reclaim
  
  The Queer community took back the word from their disparagers.
(transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
Take back faulty goods to the shop where you bought them.

take back — see withdraw

retract an earlier statement

Bulgarian: връщам (bg) impf (vrǎštam), върна pf (vǎrna)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 撤回 (zh) (chèhuí)
Czech: vzít zpět
Danish: tage tilbage
Esperanto: retiri
Finnish: perua sanansa
French: retirer (fr)
Hungarian: visszavon (hu)
Malay: tarik balik
Polish: cofać (pl) impf, cofnąć (pl) pf
Romanian: retrage (ro)
Russian: брать (свои) слова обра́тно (bratʹ (svoi) slova obrátno, literally “take (one`s) words back”)
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: povući (sh), opozvati (sh)
Spanish: retirar (es), retractarse (es), desdecirse (es)
Swedish: ta tillbaka, ångra (sv)

cause to remember some past event or time

to resume a relationship

to regain possession of something

to return something to a vendor for a refund