verb [V]
1 to go back along the same route that you have just come along:
The path suddenly disappeared and we had to backtrack.
2 to change an earlier statement, opinion or promise because of pressure from sb/sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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