Synonyms for back away
back 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

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1. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu:

   But all that is dependent on the cancellation of the visa requirement for our citizens, which is also an item in the agreement of March 18, 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.

2. Michael Moreau:

   It's hard to put into words how exciting it was to receive confirmation that the spacecraft successfully touched the surface and fired one of the gas bottles, our first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-away movie from the spacecraft.

3. John Bolton:

   We are going to do everything we can to come to a successful meeting, but we are not going to back away from the objective of that meeting which is complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea.

4. Geoff Thale:

   Venezuela has successfully played the history of U.S. imperialism and U.S. heavy-handedness cards, in a way that has made people want to back away from public criticism.

5. Ray Conner:

   To not have that, we’re just tying one hand behind our back, as far as I'm concerned, the competition is not going to back away from that kind of financing.