Antonyms for back awayback away

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1. back awayverb

   Synonyms:
   retreat

2. 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.

   Synonyms:
   retreat

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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"

   Synonyms:
   recall, retract, call in, draw back, take away, sequester, swallow, withdraw, back out, draw off, remove, seclude, take, retire, draw, take back, pull back, call back, retrograde, crawfish, move back, retreat, sequestrate, recede, bow out, pull away, take out, adjourn, pull in one's horns, unsay, crawfish out, disengage

How to use back away in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Pete Buttigieg:

   Joe Biden should be moving 60 % of Joe Biden seapower to that area of the world, joe Biden're not looking for a war, but Joe Biden've got to make clear, Joe Biden are a Pacific power, and Joe Biden are not going to back away.

3. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   If visa liberalization does not follow, we will be forced to back away from the deal on taking back (refugees) and the agreement of March 18.

4. 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.

5. Vicki Cowart:

   We don't yet know the full circumstances and motives behind this criminal action, we share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country. We will never back away from providing care in a safe, supportive environment that millions of people rely on and trust.

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