to back out
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3.2
- phrasal verb
- /bæk aʊt/
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- To create an instant studio, I first backed my car out of the garage.
- backed out of the driveway
- backed the car out of the garage
- the car backed out
And he tells tells us he's going to back out of his driveway.
- And he tells tells us he's going to back out of his driveway.
- And because of the spot in the road, it was only able to back out of the garage and now it's blocking traffic.
- But now the fact is they're in your car without permission, under the influence, backing out of the driveway.
- We left our phones, went out to a back couch, back out of this whole area.
Examples
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I watched her make her way to her car and slowly back out of the driveway.
Fiction book (1990) -
And because of the spot in the road, it was only able to back out of the garage and now it's blocking traffic.
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Now, just move in and start the car and back out.
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Minutes later, a car backs out of the driveway and speeds down the street.
Fiction book (1994) -
And he tells tells us he's going to back out of his driveway.
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The BMW, with the three Mexicans inside, backed out of the space, turned, rolled forward, and was gone.
Fiction book (1991) -
She carefully reversed her car to back out of the parking space without hitting the curb.
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He had to back out of the driveway slowly to avoid the oncoming traffic.
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Before leaving the party, he decided to back out of the narrow driveway that was packed with cars.
Synonyms
283
1.7
To step away to an earlier place
238
2.7
Move backwards to make space or avoid something
162
3.4
To move yourself and things backward from a place, person, or situation
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to move out of a space by reversing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'back' (to move backward) + 'out' (away from the interior). This motion verb + particle pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Back out comes from the literal act of moving a car back and out of a space, like reversing out of a garage. So back out means 'to move out of a space by reversing'.