Fell-back-on definition
Simple past tense and past participle of fall back on.
verb
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The French fell back on Burgos.
Some thinkers fell back on the "modalistic" solution which regards "Father" and "Son" as two aspects of the same subject; but a simpler and more popular method was the "adoptianist" or humanitarian.
The church fell back on carnal weapons in her warfare and invoked the secular powers to uphold the ecclesiastical.
That officer desired to concentrate his command on Gordonsville, but Jackson was before him at that place, and he fell back on Culpeper.