Answer to "Go backwards" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REVERSE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2015.

Go backwards crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
REVERSE	50 %	7
REGRESS	50 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Go backwards

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• decline
• deteriorate
• fall away
• worst
• worsen
• run down
• retrograde
• downtrend
• reverse
• downfall
• retrocede
• shrink back

Crossword Answer definitions

REVERSE noun

1. The opposite of something.
2. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
3. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
4. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
5. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
6. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
7. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
8. A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

REVERSE verb

1. To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
2. To turn something inside out or upside down.
3. To transpose the positions of two things.
4. To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
5. To return, come back.
6. To turn away; to cause to depart.
7. To cause to return; to recall.
8. To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
9. To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
10. To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
11. To place a set of points in the reverse position
12. (of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
13. To overthrow; to subvert.

REVERSE adjective

1. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
2. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
3. (of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
4. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
5. Reversed.
6. In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.

REVERSE adverb

1. In a reverse way or direction; in reverse; upside-down.

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 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 REGRESS

• Backslide
• Fall back
• Go back
• Go backwards
• Go back.
• Retrograde.
• Withdrawal.
• Turn backward
• Withdrawal
• Move backward