What does back away mean?
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back away
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Princeton's WordNet
retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdrawverb
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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back awayverb
To move in a direction opposite where one is facing, keeping some (or most) of your attention on the thing in front being avoided.
ChatGPT
back away
To back away means to move backwards away from something or someone, typically in order to avoid confrontation or a dangerous situation. It can also refer to gradually removing oneself from an involvement, commitment, or responsibility.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of back away in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of back away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of back away in a Sentence
Thats still our biggest uncertainty what is the nature of this material in the microgravity environment? what forces are holding it together, and how does it respond when a spacecraft punches it in and then fires thrusters to back away from it?
I know how important a tool the PATRIOT Act is to help to prevent terrorism to intercede before a terrorist act occurs. I'm not someone who's going to back away at all from the Patriot Act.
Not only did investors back away from domestic issues, but emerging-markets investors also read the tea leaves on higher interest rates, and they pulled money out.
Venezuela has successfully played the history of U.S. imperialism and U.S. heavy-handedness cards, in a way that has made people want to back away from public criticism.
It's hard to put into words how exciting it was to receive confirmation that the spacecraft successfully touched the surface and fired one of the gas bottles, our first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-away movie from the spacecraft.
Translations for back away
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- recularCatalan, Valencian
- ΣτριβεGreek
- peruuttaa, perääntyäFinnish
- mundurIndonesian
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