turn back vs recidivate

turn back and recidivate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
turn back	No	No	Yes	No
recidivate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, recidivate is a hyponym of turn back; that is, recidivate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than turn back:

Other hyponyms of turn back include fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress, resile, go back, recover, recuperate.

turn back (verb)	recidivate (verb)
go back to a previous state	go back to bad behavior
turn inside out or upside down
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
retrace one's course
force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings