back away

What does back away mean?

back away means "make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity".

What is another word for back away?

Close synonyms include retreat, pull back, back out, crawfish, crawfish out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back away a common word?

back away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for back away come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.