Backtrack

/ˈbæk.tɹæk/

Synonyms for "backtrack" (51 found)

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Verb(4 words)
Noun(9 words)
backtrackingbranchconstraint solving methodexplorenative species returnpullbackrecantretraceretracement
backwatergive back

Related words (25)

Verb(7 words)
retracesretractsretrenchretrodtrace ancestrytracing the originturn back
Adjective(1 words)

Related word relations

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More general

12 entries
actionalgorithmalgorithmic techniquedecisionmovementnavigationpolicy changereturnreversalsearch methodsearch strategywithdrawal

More specific

12 entries
about-faceconstraint satisfactionconstraint satisfaction backtrackingdepth first backtrackingdepth first searchpolicy reversalrecantationretraceretrace stepsretracingretractionreturn route

Collocations

10 entries
backtrack algorithmbacktrack databacktrack decisionbacktrack methodbacktrack pathbacktrack planbacktrack policybacktrack routebacktracking algorithmbacktracking process

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

5 entries

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I can't backtrack.

Source: tatoeba (6739883)

President Trump dangled this pardon to encourage Flynn to backtrack on his pledge to cooperate with federal investigators—cooperation that might have exposed the President's own wrongdoing. And it worked.

Source: tatoeba (9382292)

It's better to backtrack than get lost.

Source: tatoeba (11845990)

I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them.

Source: wiktionary

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