to become smaller or lower in amount, level, value etc
to move so that you are behind someone or something
Oliver and Sara fell back and started talking.
Profits fell back slightly this month.
She let her head fall back against his shoulder, murmured her encouragement, shifted her hips against him.
There was always the rendezvous with Koslov to fall back on...
Unable to defend her position, she could only fall back upon accusation, upon raw emotion.
When he had seemed to fall back into sleep, she raced down to the next floor and woke Ginny and Dena.
falls back
falling back
fell back
fallen back
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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