"back away" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "backs away",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backing away",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "backed away",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 30:",
          "text": "The WSR has remained in touch with GO-OP, despite the group deciding to back away from the project in the short term.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
          "word": "recular"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
          "word": "perääntyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
          "word": "peruuttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
          "word": "reculer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
          "word": "faire marche arrière"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To cease supporting something; to pretend one has never supported something."
      ],
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          "cease",
          "cease"
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        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To cease supporting something; to pretend one has never supported something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "retreat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "back away"
}

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      "form": "backs away",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 30:",
          "text": "The WSR has remained in touch with GO-OP, despite the group deciding to back away from the project in the short term.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs"
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      "glosses": [
        "To cease supporting something; to pretend one has never supported something."
      ],
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          "cease",
          "cease"
        ],
        [
          "support",
          "support"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To cease supporting something; to pretend one has never supported something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
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    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "retreat"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
      "word": "recular"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
      "word": "perääntyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
      "word": "peruuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
      "word": "reculer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to retreat, keeping the attention in front",
      "word": "faire marche arrière"
    }
  ],
  "word": "back away"
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