palata — meaning in English
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English meaning
- backtrack verb To go back the way you came, retracing your own steps or route.
- recur verb Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
- 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
- verb To go back the way you came, retracing your own steps or route.
- verb To reverse or withdraw an earlier statement, promise, or position.
recur — full definition
- verb Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.
- verb Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.
- verb Of a memory, thought, etc.: to come to the mind again.
- verb To speak, think, or write about something again; to go back or return to a memory, a subject, etc.