intransitive verb
1. : to come or go again to a person, place, or condition : return , revert , retreat
getting back to earth costs him all his balloons — Ellen L. Buell
2. : to gain revenge : retaliate — used with at
found an occasion for getting back at the First Consul by embroiling him with the Americans — Oscar Handlin
transitive verb
: to regain possession of : recover
got back nearly all the money he had lost