back off

verb

1. intr to retreat
2. tr to abandon (an intention, objective, etc)

Example Sentences

Night Games will be home to academic experiments — “Sync.Live” — as well as games that ask us to converse and work together via a seesaw, such as the pirate-themed “Back Off Me Booty.”

From Los Angeles Times

Having spent some time living in authoritarian societies, what I can tell you is that it is quite easy to go about your business and look the other way when the unmarked vans come to disappear the local dissidents and then return a few days later to drop their bodies back off with their families, along with some preposterous excuse for what happened.

From Slate

New Zealand dealt England a deflating start to their autumn campaign as Mark Tele'a came back off the bench to score a decisive 76th-minute try and continue the All Blacks' run of superiority.

From BBC

Belief coursed through Twickenham but ultimately a performance of stubborn determination went unrewarded as Tele'a dived in late on to cap a period of pressure and England's late rally, which also included a Ford penalty coming back off the post, could not salvage victory.

From BBC

He was asked if he would back off of that, he said no.

From Salon

Related Words

• abandon
• back down
• balk
• give up
• surrender
• withdraw