0 past simple and past participle of backtrack
2 to say that you did not mean something you said earlier or say that you have changed your opinion:
[ + speech ] "All right," he backtracked, "It's possible that I was mistaken."
The officers were forced to backtrack on their statements.
She refused to backtrack from her criticisms of the proposal.
Each node also stores a state variable that determines whether this node is being 'entered' or is being 'backtracked' into.
Just as he has backtracked on decentralisation and independence, we shall see how he votes then.
I have by no means backtracked on the question of nephrops.
They have backtracked on a very long tradition—another tradition of importance in the industry and elsewhere.
Why has she subsequently backtracked on that public commitment?
Will he explain why, within the past few weeks, he has backtracked on his previous intention to reduce the mesh size for nephrops to 70mm?
He said that the people should be the appointments commission, but then backtracked again.
I realise that he quickly backtracked from saying that he was prepared to look at it to saying that he would like to instigate a discussion on the matter.
