The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REVERT , but the solution may also be EBB which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Go back crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REVERT | 28 % | 6 |
| EBB | 23 % | 3 |
| RECEDE | 12 % | 6 |
| REGRESS | 10 % | 7 |
| RENEGE | 9 % | 6 |
| RETROCEDE | 4 % | 9 |
| RETURN | 3 % | 6 |
| RECLINE | 1 % | 7 |
| UTURN | 1 % | 5 |
| REVERSECOURSE | 1 % | 13 |
| RETREAT | 1 % | 7 |
| RETIRE | 1 % | 6 |
| REVERSE | 1 % | 7 |
| RETRACE | 1 % | 7 |
| REPASS | 1 % | 6 |
Why may EBB be the right solution?
"Ebb" means to recede or go back, as in the ebbing of the tide. Therefore, "Ebb" is the right solution for the clue "Go back".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Go back
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- return
- come back
- recover
- recur
- date back
- date from
- get back
- bring back
- give up
- come to
- get on
- stick to
Crossword Answer definitions
REVERT noun- One who, or that which, reverts.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- (now rare) To return; to come back.
- To return to the possession of.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REVERT
- Return to a former condition
- Backslide
- Go back (to a previous version)
- Go back to square one
- Backslide, perhaps
- Go back to the way you were
- Fall back on old ways
- Go back (to), as a habit
- Return, as to a past practice
- Go back
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result RECEDE
- Withdraw
- Go back
- Fall back
- Ebb
- Retreat, like a hairline
- Move back
- Reveal more forehead
- Subside
- Move away
- Give ground gradually
More clues leading to the result REGRESS
- Backslide
- Fall back
- Go back
- Go backwards
- Go back.
- Retrograde.
- Withdrawal.
- Turn backward
- Withdrawal
- Move backward
More clues leading to the result RENEGE
- Bridge failure
- Bridge no-no
- Go back on one's word
- Go back on a promise
- Play a club when you should have played a heart
- Commit a card sin
- Goof in a card game
- Play a card out of suit
- Go back on
- Go back on a deal
More clues leading to the result RETROCEDE
More clues leading to the result RETURN
- Word in many sequel titles
- First word of some sequels
- MacArthur quote ender
- "___ of the Jedi"
- Send back
- Investor's goal
- Typewriter key
- Tax document
- "___ to Oz" (1985 film)
- Boomerang
More clues leading to the result RECLINE
- Sit back
- Use an easy chair
- Stretch out
- Lie
- Lean back
- Lie down
- Go back
- Lean back in a chair
- Use a La-Z-Boy
- Lie down.
More clues leading to the result UTURN
- It'll take you back
- NO __ (road sign)
- Reverse direction
- Total reversal
- 180-degree maneuver
- 180, so to speak
- About face
- It might get you back on track
- Quick backtrack
- Reversal
More clues leading to the result REVERSECOURSE
More clues leading to the result RETREAT
- Turn tail
- Withdrawal
- Backpedal
- Den
- Weekend getaway
- Military withdrawal
- Den, to dad
- Spa, typically
- A hasty one can be beat
- Draw back
More clues leading to the result RETIRE
- Hit the sack
- Collect Canada Pension
- Go to bed
- Hang 'em up
- Leave work
- Put out to pasture
- Withdraw
- What kids don't like to do at a slumber party
- Receive a golden handshake, perhaps
- Stop working
More clues leading to the result REVERSE
- Parallel parker's gear
- Side of a U.S. coin that expresses its value in words
- Gear used when parallel parking
- Flip
- Transpose
- About-face
- Turn around
- Way to go back
- One begins parallel parking in it
- Setback
More clues leading to the result RETRACE
- Go over someone else's lines
- Travel backward?
- Go back over
- Go over again
- Walk over
- Walk all over?
- Backtrack.
- Go back the same way.
- Follow backward.
- Search back, as for clues.