Withdraw vs Backtrack - What's the difference?
withdraw | backtrack |
To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
* Hooker
To take back (a comment, etc).
To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
To extract (money from an account).
To retreat.
To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
to retrace one's steps
to repeat or review work already done
(aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff
As verbs the difference between withdraw and backtrack
is that withdraw is to pull (something) back, aside, or away while backtrack is to retrace one's steps.As a noun backtrack is
the act of.withdraw
English
Verb
- Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
- to withdraw false charges
- Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.
backtrack
English
Verb
(en verb)- I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them.
- If we backtrack through this problem, maybe we can figure out where we went wrong.
- Speedbird One: Enter and backtrack Runway 27 Left