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The definition of backtrack is to return by retracing steps you've taken already.

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Hikers retracing their steps so they would not get lost is an example of backtrack.

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See backtrack in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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intransitive verb

to return by the same path
to withdraw from a position, attitude, etc.

See backtrack in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb back·tracked, back·track·ing, back·tracks

To go back over the course by which one has come.
To return to a previous point or subject, as in a lecture or discussion.
To reverse one's position or policy.

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