What does back out mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. back outverb

    move out of a space backwards

    "He backed out of the driveway"

  2. 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"

Wiktionary

  1. back outverb

    To reverse a vehicle from a confined space.

  2. back outverb

    To withdraw from something one has promised to do.

  3. back outverb

    To undo a change.

ChatGPT

  1. back out

    To back out generally means to withdraw from a promise, agreement, or commitment, often due to the discovery of problems or difficulties. It can also refer to the act of reversing or moving backwards out of a situation, location or direction.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of back out in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of back out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of back out in a Sentence

  1. Lisa Nagengast:

    I was kinda gracefully [ trying to ] back out of everything that had happened at that point, zach Hillmer was like,' No no no, I will take Zach Hillmer to the hospital. You give me Zach Hillmer name and Zach Hillmer address and make sure that Zach Hillmer gets in the car with me, and I will get Zach Hillmer where Zach Hillmer needs to go.'.

  2. Bill Taylor:

    I let them know up front going into the meeting that I had not decided whether to accept the offer to go back out to Kiev because I was troubled by what I was hearing, not just this Rudy Giuliani article, but I was troubled by other things as well and I made this clear to both, both Mr. Ulrich Brechbuhl and Secretary Mike Pompeo.

  3. Trezell West:

    I came to my house, I saw them there, go in the house, I came back out, I didn't see them now, i realized that I left the gate open, and I panicked. I came inside the house, searched the house -- me and my wife.

  4. Golden State coach Steve Kerr:

    I didn't like the way he was moving when he went back out in the third quarter.

  5. Sukrit Vijayakar:

    Things are not quite the same as in the previous decade, when Iran was regarded as a menace and a threat. Over the last three-four years Iran has behaved itself - according to everybody, it's only Trump who wants to back out of the deal, but he wants to back out of so many deals ... If you keep saying about backing out, you lose credibility as a state. Everyone is feeling the pinch of OPEC cuts anyway.


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