Back Out

Definition: Back Out

Back Out

Verb

1. Move out of a space backwards; "He backed out of the driveway".

2. 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".

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Synonyms: Back Out

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Crosswords: Back Out

Listen, listen, listen - if you don't love the guy, then why don't you just back out of this? (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

You put a twenty in your zipper and back out slowly. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz K�fer)

Go Back Out (1995)

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Running up to bank and loosing trace - then heading back out into bay Record from PEIRCE launch in Delaware Bay 1985. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

GOES view of North America. The center of Tropical Storm Diana is heading back out to sea after crossing North Carolina. Tropical Storm Edouard is approaching its maximum strength of 55 knots in the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Norbert is deepening southwest of Baja California. Credit: NOAA in Space.

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She would have done the same for Bruno, but he hastily drew back out of reach.

In two minutes she lost sight of him, and came back out of breath, three quarters choked by her asthma, and furious.

They leaped like chipmunks over the front seat and onto the top of the load, and they burrowed back out of sight like chipmunks.

When this adventure was at an end, I came back out of my house, having occasion for fresh air.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Czech Republic

Although the communist-led government initially intended to participate in the Marshall Plan, it was forced by Moscow to back out. (references)

Travel

Russia

To prevent possible difficulties in taking currency and valuables back out of Russia, the travelers are highly advised to ensure that their passenger declaration form is completed and is stamped by customs officials at the point of entry. (references)

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Expressions using "back out": back out of ♦ To back out. Additional references.

Albanian

dal mbrapsht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تملص (back out of, duck, elude, elusion, evade, evasion, furtiveness, hedge, shrink, shuffle off, swing the lead, worm, wriggle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

не си отстоявам на думата, движа се заднишком. (various references)

Czech

vyvléknout se, vykroutit se, vycouvat z (back out of). (various references)

French

se soustraire (back out of). (various references)

German

zurücktreten (abdicate, come second, decline, diminish, fade, fall back, go down, kick back, recede, rescind, resign, retrogress, step back, step down, subside, to recede, to rescind, to retire, to retrogress, to step back, withdraw), kneifen (chicken out, crap out, duck out, get out, hedge, nip, pinch, pinching, to nip, tweak), herausfahren (pull out), abspringen (bale, bale out, bounce off, chip, come off, dismount, flake off, jump, jump down, jump out, opt out, parachute, peel off, take off, to jump off). (various references)

Greek 

υπαναχωρώ (go back on, retract, withdraw). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחזור בו (back down, back out of, back up, recant, reconsider, regret, repent, take back, unsay). (various references)

Hungarian

kihátrál (to back out, to crawfish). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackbay outay

Romanian

da îndãrãt (back, back of, give ground). (various references)

Russian 

отменять (abolish, abrogate, annul, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, revoked, revoking, undid, undone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvući se (creep out, get away with it, pull through, shirk), izaći (come out, exit, get out, go out). (various references)

Spanish

volverse atrás (back down, backpedal, backtrack, climb down, look back), salir reculando, salir marcha atrás, retirarse por (back off, drop out, stand down), renunciar (abjure, disclaim, pass up, quitclaim, renounce, resign, revoke, throw off, throw up, trade off), quitar con marcha atrás, no cumplir (dishonor, dishonour, neglect, renege), hacer salir marcha atrás. (various references)

Swedish

backa ur, gå baklänges ut. (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), sözünden dönmek (back down, back down from, back out of, back pedal, backtrack, break one's word, renege), caymak (back down, back down from, back out of, call back, change one's mind, cry off, deflect, depart, go back on, go without, leave, recant, retract, swallow, swerve, wangle, wangle out of). (various references)

Ukrainian

ухилятися (avoid, balk, blench, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle). (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Back Out" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backout. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backout, outback.

-2 letters: about, bucko.

-3 letters: abut, auto, back, boat, bock, bota, bout, buck, coat, tabu, tack, taco, tuba, tuck.

-4 letters: abo, act, auk, bat, boa, bot, but, cab, cat, cob, cot, cub, cut, kab, kat, koa, kob, oak, oat, oca, oka, out, tab, tao, tau, tub, uta.

-5 letters: ab, at, ba, bo, ka, ta, to, ut.

+1 letter: backouts, blackout, outbacks.

+2 letters: backcourt, blackouts, touchback.

+3 letters: backcourts, knockabout, touchbacks.

+4 letters: backcountry, knockabouts.

+5 letters: backcourtman, backcourtmen.