back out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move out of a space backwards
He backed out of the driveway
Types & categories
- back hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
Related & opposite
- withdrawal derivation
- withdrawer derivation
- withdrawer derivation
- retreat verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | back |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawal |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | withdrawer |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | retreat |