backtrack
[bak-trak]
verb (used without object)
to return over the same course or route.
to withdraw from an undertaking, position, etc.; reverse a policy.
Origin of backtrack
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Related Words for backtrack
retract, reverse, about-face, rethink, back, change, withdraw, retrograde, retreat, double, return, retrocedeExamples from the Web for backtrack
Contemporary Examples of backtrack
That will be immensely difficult if Mr. Modi continues to backtrack on economic reform.
“The amount of time you spend at the gym is not enough time to backtrack in your waist training,” she says.
As a wave of revulsion spread across the internet, he began to backtrack.
Words just spill out of her mouth too quickly and she has to backtrack.
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December 18, 2013
He tried to backtrack and get the last words that Crowley should have given him.
Historical Examples of backtrack
To-morrow I'll sell the grub and backtrack to the coast to guard it.
The Trail of a SourdoughMay Kellogg Sullivan
Loring realized he had made a mistake and tried to backtrack.
Danger in Deep SpaceCarey Rockwell
Following their backtrack through the forest, therefore, they proceeded towards the place where they had left their horses.
BruinMayne Reid
backtrack
verb (intr)
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