Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
To reverse (a vehicle) from a confined space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He backed out of the garage.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: back up, reverse
To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- She backed out of organizing the fund-raising.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To convince (someone) to withdraw from a challenge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To bet on someone losing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games
Examples
- 1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.
- See also: sell short
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To undo (a change).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- I had to back out the changes made to the computer when it became apparent that they had stopped it working properly.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To exit a mode or function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- I chose that menu option by accident, so I pressed Escape to back out.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also bare back).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Multicultural-London-English, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: retreat, pull back, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw
Antonyms: none provided
move out of a space backwards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He backed out of the driveway
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: back
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Bulgarian:
давам на задна
(davam na zadna)
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Bulgarian:
дам на задна
(dam na zadna)
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Finnish:
peruuttaa
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Italian:
fare retromarcia
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Italian:
fare marcia indietro
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Italian:
retrocedere
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Italian:
indietreggiare
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Russian:
сдавать назад
(sdavatʹ nazad)
— to reverse a vehicle from a confined space
-
Bulgarian:
отмятам се
(otmjatam se)
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Bulgarian:
отметна се
(otmetna se)
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Catalan:
fer-se enrere
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Dutch:
zich terugtrekken
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Finnish:
perua
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Georgian:
უკან დახევა
(uḳan daxeva)
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
German:
sich zurückziehen
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
German:
aussteigen
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Hungarian:
hátrál
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Italian:
fare marcia indietro
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Russian:
дать за́дний ход
(datʹ zádnij xod)
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Spanish:
dar marcha atrás
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Spanish:
echarse atrás
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Spanish:
echarse para atrás
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Spanish:
retirarse
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
-
Spanish:
volverse atrás
— to withdraw from something one has promised to do
