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Back away   /bæk əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Back away

verb
1.
Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity.  Synonyms: back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw.  "He backed out of his earlier promise" , "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"






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"Back away" Quotes from Famous Books



... again. Moktaques, the big white hare, who forgets a thing the moment it is past, sees you standing there and is full of curiosity. He forgets that he was being hunted a moment ago, and comes hopping along to see what you are. You back away toward the fire. He scampers off in a fright, but presently comes hopping after you. Watch the underbrush behind him sharply. In a moment it stirs stealthily, as if a shadow were moving it; and there is the lynx, stealing along in the snow with his eyes blazing. Again Moktaques feels that ...
— Wilderness Ways • William J Long

... in the full midst of a noisy crowd, and quite indifferent to the flying stones, stood Dolores, alone. The women who had gone down to the shore with her kept farther back away from the line of fire. Yet she was not quite alone. For a man had sauntered carelessly in her direction and finally stopped behind her. The splendid creature felt the warmth of Tenet's breath upon her neck, and her skin tingled under that burning contact. She turned her head and caught one ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... destined, how ever to last. A halt and a rest seemed to give the bull strength far greater than it had used in pulling against the rope before. With an angry snort the animal dug its hind hoofs into the soil and began to back away. ...
— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock

... Gavin was continuing to back away in a most ungallant fashion, till he got to the wall and there was no means of escape, when rescue came ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

... talkin' to once, why he thought she was a slaver, and how long the niggers had been dead. Lord! what a fuss there was. Everybody askin' the foolishest questions, and crowdin' and squeezin', and them in front pushin' back away from the hatchway, as if they expected the dead would rise and walk out o' that black hole where they'd laid so long. They couldn't get much out o' the old man, except that there was skel'tons scattered all over the after hold, and that he knew she was a slaver by the ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote



Words linked to "Back away" :   recede, retire, pull away, move back, draw back



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