• v.
    ⦿take position in the rear, as in a military formation or in the line of scrimmage in football
    lexical concept
  • The defender dropped back behind his teammate

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:drop back
wn:interlingual indexili:i30887

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeldrop back