English-Italian translations for back out

• fare marcia indietro
  Dalla politica di parità non si può fare marcia indietro. Equal opportunity policy is not something one can back out of.
  Tutte le parti in causa devono fare marcia indietro per venirne fuori, altrimenti un intervento militare sarà inevitabile. Everyone in it needs to put themselves into reverse gear in order to get back out again, or else the troops will end up being sent in.
• fare retromarcia
• indietreggiare
• retrocedere

Definition of back out

• To reverse from a confined space
• To withdraw from something one has agreed to do
• To dare to not withdraw from a challenge
• To bet on someone losing
• To undo (a change
• To exit a mode or function

Examples

• He backed out of the garage.
• She backed out of organizing the fund-raising.
• I had to back out the changes made to the computer when it became apparent that they had stopped it working properly.
• I chose that menu option by accident, so I pressed Escape to back out.

Related words

• background colour
• Red-backed Mousebird
• White-backed Mousebird
• humpback grouper
• back country sport
• Golden-backed Mountain Tanager
• you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
• you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours
• double back