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Back away

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Verb
  1. 1
    To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity wordnet
  3. 3
    To cease supporting something; to pretend one has never supported something. intransitive

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