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View definitions for backed off

backed off

verb as in retreat

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He subsequently backed off that number of temporary units, while issuing an emergency order to immediately build up to 200, including 32 on the parking lot of UCLA’s Jackie Robinson baseball stadium.

He had been 0.1secs or so off Russell’s pace until he backed off out of the final corner.

From BBC

He threatened a broader set of tariffs on Mexican goods, but eventually backed off after extracting a promise from Mexican authorities to take measures to stop migrants from reaching the U.S. border.

Now the air board has backed off its 47-cent price hike estimate.

But the Senate leader has backed off since then.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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