BACK AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does back away mean? 

• BACK AWAY (verb)
  The verb BACK AWAY has 1 sense:

1. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

  Familiarity information: BACK AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACK AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

back away; back out; crawfish; crawfish out; pull back; pull in one's horns; retreat; withdraw

Context example:

The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns

Verb group:

draw back; move back; pull away; pull back; recede; retire; retreat; withdraw (pull back or move away or backward)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Beauty Smith, his hands still behind him, began to back away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Lip-lip essayed to back away, but White Fang struck him hard, shoulder to shoulder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He tried to back away from her, oblivious to the fact that by his hold on her he dragged her after him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)