"walk back" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "walks back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walking back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "walk back (third-person singular simple present walks back, present participle walking back, simple past and past participle walked back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Greg Sargent, The Plumb Line:",
          "text": "Did Obama walk back his support of Cordoba House? As you know, the Internets are alive with the claim that Obama has now walked back his support of Cordoba House, and I've gotten tons of emails telling me that my earlier praise of the speech is no longer operative. But did he really walk back what he said last night?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 30, Farhad Manjoo, “Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "That seemed comforting — but then the president over the weekend walked back his promise.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise."
      ],
      "id": "en-walk_back-en-verb-N0O~RycY",
      "links": [
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "backpedal",
          "backpedal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retract"
        },
        {
          "word": "unsay"
        },
        {
          "word": "unspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "take back"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
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          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"back\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "walkback"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, back."
      ],
      "id": "en-walk_back-en-verb-S~fxhB7r",
      "links": [
        [
          "walk",
          "walk#English"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "rollback"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "tags": [
            "verb"
          ],
          "word": "roll back"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "walk back"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"back\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "walkback"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "walks back",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walking back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked back",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "walked back",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "walk back (third-person singular simple present walks back, present participle walking back, simple past and past participle walked back)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "rollback"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "roll back"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Greg Sargent, The Plumb Line:",
          "text": "Did Obama walk back his support of Cordoba House? As you know, the Internets are alive with the claim that Obama has now walked back his support of Cordoba House, and I've gotten tons of emails telling me that my earlier praise of the speech is no longer operative. But did he really walk back what he said last night?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 30, Farhad Manjoo, “Democrats Have a Year to Save the Planet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "That seemed comforting — but then the president over the weekend walked back his promise.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "withdraw",
          "withdraw"
        ],
        [
          "backpedal",
          "backpedal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retract"
        },
        {
          "word": "unsay"
        },
        {
          "word": "unspeak"
        },
        {
          "word": "take back"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, back."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "walk",
          "walk#English"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "walk back"
}