transitive verb
1. : return
take that jar back and get the right brand — Phoenix Flame
2. : to resume possession of:
a. : to accept the return of
store willingly takes back anything it sells
b. : repossess
stories of … furniture taken back because of failure to meet payments — E.S.Hoyt
3. : to permit to come back
had been fired twice and both times taken back
4. : retract , withdraw
would neither apologize nor take back what he had said
5. : to lead or draw back in thought to an earlier time
took me back to when I was about twenty — Walter de la Mare
there's nothing like music for taking you back — Mary Deasy