Definitions for back away
back away

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1. 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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of back away in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of back away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of back away in a Sentence

1. Marcus Hicks:

   I cautioned my force to back away from pushing it too hard is because the resource rich environment that we enjoyed in Iraq and Afghanistan exists virtually nowhere in West Africa.

2. Ray Conner:

   To not have that, we're just tying one hand behind our back, as far as I'm concerned, the competition is not going to back away from that kind of financing.

3. Jeff Tjornehoj:

   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.

4. Michael Moreau:

   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, if TAG made a significant disturbance of the surface, we likely collected a lot of material.

5. Sheila Malloy:

   I continue to wear my mask, I continue to follow the guidelines, I continue to wash my hands, I continue to back away from a lot of crowds.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=back away
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Back_Away
3. ^ ChatGPT
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