bounce back
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.
Intransitive verb
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, back.
noun
Example Sentences
- "We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital."
- "Chelsea bounced back from the disappointment of losing at Wolves in midweek to end City's 21-game unbeaten league run stretching back to April, and a sequence of 14 unbeaten games away from home."
- "The current Coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an effect on the line's traffic, but I have little doubt that the numbers will bounce back sooner or later because the ELL has proved too vital a link for both business and leisure travel."
- "After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises."