Back up and Shift

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Back up verb - Move backwards from a certain position.

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Shift and back up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shift" instead a verb "Back up".

Shift verb - To change the place or position of.

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Back up and shift are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Back up" instead a verb "Shift".

Nearby Words: shifting, shifted, shifty, shiftiness, shifter

She does this by removing all her clothes and unwinding her bindings to fashion a make-shift rope and then, completely naked, proceeding to haul him back up to the top.

Source: Flower from the Mountaintop
Its lampshaded when his appearance reverting from a slightly more realistic style due to an Art Shift; it swings right back up from his bangs during the one-panel transformation.

Source: Idiot Hair
And that one time he was thought to be dead (when he saved Litchi in the beginning of his story in Continuum Shift)... he suddenly got back up as if nothing happened. Hmmmm....

Source: The Phoenix

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