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back out   (TTS Sound)

The verb back out has 2 senses

• back out -- (move out of a space backwards; "He backed out of the driveway")


• retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw -- (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")