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back-track

vb. (alternative form of backtrack English)

Usage examples of "back-track".

Seventy years of totalitarianism had left them with a terrific appetite for back-tracking, doublespeak and doublecross.

It was without surprise that he back-tracked Merritt to a counter in the General Delivery room of the Petersburg mail depot where he had peeled off a routing slip addressed to him and replaced it with the one that would carry the toxin to Follard.