backtrack

Speech parts

1. backtrack - Noun

2. backtrack - Verb

Meaning

retrace one's course

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

turn back double back u-turn back change return double reverse retreat withdraw reversal renounce revert retrograde retract
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Antonyms

clear pay advance boost compensate repay
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Hypernyms

return

Phrases with the word

backtrack on

Anagrams

trackback

Examples

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. Lance Morrow

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to. Will Oldham

The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back Source: Internet

As part of the process, Stevenson has to backtrack the evidence, prove McMillian's evidence and expose the racism involved. Source: Internet

As a kid, it's not so much that I ignored the order of series, is that I was constantly without realizing it reading 2nd or 3rd books and then having to backtrack. Source: Internet

However, these Judean rebels ultimately decided that it was better to live under a terrible Jewish king than backtrack to a Seleucid ruler. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

backtime backtitration backtrace backtrack on backtrackable backtracker