intransitive verb
: to give way : retreat , recede
the infantry fell back before the determined enemy attack
rivers … were falling back from their flood peaks — E.L.Dale
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- fall back on
intransitive verb
: to give way : retreat , recede
the infantry fell back before the determined enemy attack
rivers … were falling back from their flood peaks — E.L.Dale
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- fall back on
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012