"back away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "backs away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "back away (third-person singular simple present backs away, present participle backing away, simple past and past participle backed away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided."
      ],
      "id": "en-back_away-en-verb-wzyL6WUq",
      "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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retreat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "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"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "backs away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backed away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "back away (third-person singular simple present backs away, present participle backing away, simple past and past participle backed away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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"
}