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Verb: back out  bak awt
  1. Move out of a space backwards
    "He backed out of the driveway"
     
  2. Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
    "He backed out of his earlier promise";
    - retreat, pull back, back away, crawfish [N. Amer, informal], crawfish out [N. Amer, informal], pull in one's horns [informal], withdraw

Derived forms: backed out, backing out, backs out

See also: back

Type of: back

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back door
back down
back end
back entrance
back exercise
back judge
back matter
back of beyond
back of Bourke
back off
back out
back pack
back passage
back porch
back road
back room
back saw
back stance
back straight
back street
back talk