Back Away

Definition: Back Away

Back Away

Verb

1. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Back Away

Recession

Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid).

Crosswords: Back Away

It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away. (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to back away from Van's vehicle (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

Turn my back away (Alive; performing artist: P.O.D.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Zambia

Civil society, opposition parties, and many members of the ruling party exerted sufficient pressure on Chiluba to force him to back away from any attempt at a third term. (references)

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Albanian

zmbrapsem (flinch, recede, recoil, regress, wince), tërhiqem (back out of, backpedal, backslide, climb down, deny, depart, draw away, draw back, fall back, give ground, rebound, recede, recoil, retire, retrograde, shrink, withdraw). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقهقر (fall back, fall behind, give ground, go on before, hold down, lose ground, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retreating, retrograde, retrogression, withdraw), ‏تراجع (back down, back up, backwards, blemish, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оттеглям се (adjourn, back, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, scuttle, seclude, step down, withdraw), отдръпвам се (dodge, ease off, ebb, flow back, move away, move up, pull over, quail, recoil, retire, shrink away, shrink back, stand aside, stand off, step aside). (various references)

Czech

vycouvat (draw back). (various references)

French

reculer (back, balk, baulk, bush back, give back, move back, rein back, stand back, step back, turn back, walk back, walk backwards). (various references)

German

zurückweichen (draw back, fall back, flinch, move back, recede, retreat, shrink back, shy away, stand back, subside, to flinch, withdraw). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רתע (blench, boggle, cringe, draw back, flinch, recoil, refrain, retract, retreat, withdraw), לס�'ת (draw back, fall back, give ground, lose ground, recede, retire, retract, retreat, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian

eltér (aberrate, deviate, differ, diverge, swerve, to angle, to be unlike sg, to deflect, to depart, to deviate, to go off, to go out of one's way, to turn off, to yaw, turn). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackbay awayay.(various references)

Russian 

отступаться (apostatize, back down), отступать (back down, backtrack, blench, change one's base, digress, draw back, fall back, fell back, flinch, give ground, give grounds, lose ground, move back, recede, retire, retrograde, retrogress, stand back, step back). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustuknuti (blench, flinch, jib, lose ground, recede, recoil, shrink back, step back). (various references)

Spanish

retroceder (back, back up, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, go backwards, move back, move backwards, push back, recede, regress, retrogress, stand back, turn back, walk backward), ir no adelante, ir atrás (back down), frenar (brake, catch), dar varios pasos, dar un paso (move, step, step forward), dar un freno. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: kabaya.

-3 letters: abaca, aback, abaka, wacky.

-4 letters: away, back, caky, wack, yack.

-5 letters: aba, aby, awa, baa, bay, cab, caw, cay, kab, kay, wab, way, yak, yaw.