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English
Verb
back away (third-person singular simple present backs away, present participle backing away, simple past and past participle backed away)
- (intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 30:The WSR has remained in touch with GO-OP, despite the group deciding to back away from the project in the short term.
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Translations
to retreat, keeping the attention in front