TAKEN BACK Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

taken back

verb

past participle of take back

as in withdrawn

to solemnly or formally reject or go back on (as something formerly adhered to) I take back what I said about her: she's not the fool I thought she was

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Recent Examples of taken back The Northglenn Police Department says he will be taken back to Adams County, where he will be taken into custody by local law enforcement. — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Members of the military escorted the women and the child off the premises for questioning, all of whom were eventually released and taken back to the nearest town, Puerto Maldonado. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 The former mayor’s test came back positive for meth, and he was then taken back into custody, per the outlet. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026 The escapee, who was not identified, was subsequently taken back into custody by the Erath County Sheriff’s Office. — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 Wattenberg, the Broncos’ starting center, was injured during a one-on-one drill early in practice and tested the movement and range of motion of his left arm before being taken back into the facility with training staff. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 3 Aug. 2026 Visitors are taken back in time to imagine how this now extinct creature — three times the size of a modern-day great white shark — used to swim right over the National Mall. — Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026 Captured with its Mastcam instrument, a panorama composed of 340 images taken back on June 19 show the hexagons dominating a huge stretch of the landscape. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 July 2026 The monkey, which has since been nicknamed Oyster after the London travel card, was taken back to the bus depot in the nearby suburb of Willesden, where staff subsequently contacted the RSPCA. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

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However, the membership application was never formally withdrawn.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 18 Aug. 2026
The United States’ allies, in particular, simply do not understand yet that Washington has withdrawn its support from the old order and from them.

— Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of withdrawn

Verb

Yermolaiev has lived in the glitzy city state on the Mediterranean coast for several years, having left Ukraine and renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 to become a citizen of Cyprus.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Their virality comes at a time when the very generation that inspired them has largely renounced the label.

— Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of renounced

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If the rule is repealed as proposed, those prohibitions will go away.

— Dan Peck, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
However, the laws were ultimately repealed after being met with massive agitations from farmers and farmer unions, especially from Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of repealed

Verb

Three others in the group — 14, 15 and 16 at the time — implicated Noling in the slayings of the Hartigs during a burglary but later retracted their statements, saying that police pressured them to name Noling as the shooter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Only when the United States retracted those measures and agreed to further talks, in June, did China agree to resume exports of rare earths and magnets.

— GLORIA XIONG, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026