palata — meaning in English

English meaning

• backtrack verb To go back the way you came, retracing your own steps or route.
• recur verb If an event or situation happens again, often more than once.
• return verb To come or go back to a place, or to give something back to its owner.
• revert verb To go back to a previous state, condition, or topic.

Senses

palata is used for these senses in English:

• backtrack To retrace one's steps.
• hark back (figuratively) To allude, return, or revert (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, to evoke, or long or pine for (a past era or event). [from 19th c.]
• put back (intransitive, nautical) To turn back; to return.
• recur (dated) To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.
• reenter (ambitransitive) To enter again; return into.
• reenter (transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput.
• return to form (idiomatic) To go back to a better, original state.
• revert (transitive, now, rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

backtrack — full definition

1. verb To go back the way you came, retracing your own steps or route.
2. verb To reverse or withdraw an earlier statement, promise, or position.

recur — full definition

1. verb If an event or situation happens again, often more than once.
2. verb If an illness or its symptoms come back, especially after seeming to have gone away.
3. verb If a memory or thought returns to someone's mind.
4. verb To go back to a particular topic or memory in speech, thought or writing.

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